The projects developed and featured in the framework of FUNKEN Academy showcase artistic experiments with different scientific topics, as data, fungi or DNA.
Speculative design solutions for the environmental challenges of the diving sector.
The pumping machine works slowly. Inherently unproductive, it exudes a dragging feeling. Pump’s sluggishness bends time and liberates us from normative experience. It is a performative act allowing for an examination of loss and liminality of feedback networks. After everything failed, this is the last thing clemently screening us from peril.
In the torrent of the times, the fabrics that had lost their owners and had nowhere to go were untied, torn, twisted and knitted by the artist’s own hands. Countless gorgeous garments left behind by the mother of an acquaintance at her house.
In reminiscence of energized waterfalls and places of power in nature, this garment aims to poetically evoke moments in which the qualities and energy of water can be felt and experienced.
The piece explores the emergence of ordered patterns from stochastic systems. It results from experiments with encoding information in metal artifacts using advanced 3D printing technologies. A dedicated algorithm analyzes digit frequencies in prime numbers, revealing their patterns through ten matrices and translating them into sound. The work was created during the FUNKEN Academy and…
Infinitesimal is an experimental animation that explores the gaps in scientific imaging by imagining nanoscale movement and how it would appear if visible to our eyes. DNA origami is so minuscule that the microscope captures only its final stage of folding, a process that leaves gaps in understanding intermediate stages. The work departed from images…
Inspired by scientific research towards using mycelium as an economically viable material, the research project How to negotiate with a material sheds light on the protocols of power and control that come to play when using another living being for the production of a good.
Ghostly Collector is a multifaceted ghost, capable of transformation and realm-crossing, whose identity figures through micro-performativity. Ghostly Collector explores whether fiction can make new scientific innovations more accessible. By linking nanotechnologies such as DNA folding and protein design with artistic storytelling, the transmedia installation challenges the notion of object permanence.
A lamp, once used by humans, gets overtaken by nature. The lampshade transforms through mushroom growth, consuming its fabric. The fruiting bodies naturally adapt to their environment. The lampstand is made out of mycelium, the main part of fungi, grown in a specific way to achieve a durable material.Adapted Artifact 258 explores human influence on…
A key focus of this project is the elimination of gender-specific biases in historical datasets used by AI. By examining the consequences of AI’s reliance on historical data, it raises ethical questions, exploring how AI can complement, rewrite and reinterpret data archives. The project creates an inclusive and diverse fictional image archive to address historical…
Humanity has developed in many ways through the creation and wearing of clothing. Of food, clothing and shelter, only humans have clothing. That is why we believe that thinking about the future of clothing is tantamount to thinking about the future of humanity.FASHION FRONTIER PROGRAM is looking for comrades who will think and create the…