AI
Machine Gesture Design
February 28, 2018 | Naomi Lea | One CommentBoston Dynamics has just released a new video testing their four-legged robot SpotMini, where one helped another by opening a door. This video immediately went viral and received more than 8 million views over the course of two weeks. It also … Read More
The Psychology of Awe
February 22, 2018 | Naomi LeaThe first time seeing Black Flags by William Forsythe, I experienced a sense of wonder and awe that I could not quite explain. It is a familiar feeling, not unlike the times when I saw a brilliant sky, visited a grand … Read More
Machine Theatre
February 14, 2018 | Naomi LeaSeen above is my favourite installation art by roboticist Arthur Ganson.
A chair rests peacefully centre stage. A seemingly cumbersome machine enters. It moves towards the chair, slowly but gracefully, almost floating. The machine swoops ups the chair. It performs a … Read More
Reinforcement Learning in Processing
February 13, 2018 | Dhruv KumarIn 1997, Michael Mozer with an incredible group of students converted a mundane farmhouse into an adaptive house. The house started with no knowledge of its inhabitants and did not perform as one would expect a ‘smart house’ to do. … Read More
Vasilija Abramovic
Architect, researcher, tutor and Exhibitions Director at the Interactive Architecture Lab, Vasilija's interests are in design and fabrication of responsive environments with recent exhibitions in Fran...
Hive
Hive is a modular kinetic architecture inspired by bee colony behaviour. There are certain types of honeybees that produce a Mexican wavelike cascade called ‘shimmering’, when they feel threatened...