The Practice of Art and Science
Space Exploration Initiative
MIT Media Lab (US), Xin Liu (CN)
In the past, the desire for exploration and expansion had a profound impact on how we imagined planetary futures. What shall we imagine now? In this exhibition, six projects from the Space Exploration Initiative of MIT Media Lab are asking the same question and bringing possibilities to the (im)possible space: All the projects were successfully deployed and performed in a zero-gravity parabolic flight last year. They are hopes beyond solutions, imaginations, more than facts.
Smart Traffic – Augmented Cyclists meet Automated Vehicles
CARISSMA — Center of Automotive Research on Integrated Safety Systems and Measurement Area, Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt (DE)
How will city life be in a world controlled by intelligent and cooperative transportation systems? Experience future traffic as either a cyclist or an operator of an automated vehicle in an immersive virtual world, and become part of a real scientific experiment addressing traffic safety.
Particle Post
Yuri Tanaka (JP), Pavle Dinulović (RS), Umut Kose (TR), Chris Bruckmayr (AT)
Receiving cosmic muons through a scintillator detector, the postbox subtly emits sound and light as a direct consequence of every particle it detects. It is through this process that the implied aesthetics of the unperceivable are explored, as are the means by which it could be indirectly appreciated in different ways through the bodies and minds of humans.
Unicorn – The Brain Interface
g.tec medical engineering GmbH (AT)
The Unicorn Hybrid Black is a high-quality wearable EEG-headset for Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) applications to perfectly acquire brain waves.
Bugfix the Brain
g.tec medical engineering GmbH (AT)
Imagine being able to think, hear, and feel – but not to move or communicate. The exhibition Bugfix the Brain focuses on patients who suffer from motor disabilities due to stroke or disorders of consciousness and shows state-of-the-art rehabilitation and assessment tools based on Brain-Computer Interfaces. Neurologists, physical therapists, caregivers and patients are welcome to test these brain rehabilitation technologies on themselves.
Strange Temporalities
STOCHASTIC LABS (US)
Triaina: Model A
TOHOKUSHINSHA FILM CORPORATION x AnotherFarm (JP)
Triaina is an ongoing large-scale art project that utilizes design and technology to create sustainable ecosystems that integrate man-made forms with nature. A sculpture made from concrete and α-amino acids is placed on the seabed and acts as a cultural artifact as well as a home to marine life, promoting an ecosystem that is a symbiosis between man and nature.
The Form of Digital Nature
Yoichi Ochiai (JP)
In Digital Nature, our current norms of physical and recognition abilities are transcended. Extremely enhanced computation and resolution abilities become part of daily life. The humanity of the future may live in Digital Nature, where the very concepts of nature, artificial objects, gravity and time are overturned.
Programmable Droplets
Udayan Umapathi (IN/US)
The Programmable Droplets system was created to use droplets in our environment and program them for information manipulation and human interaction.
LightWing II
Uwe Rieger (DE/NZ), Yinan Liu (NZ), arc/sec Lab (NZ)
The interactive installation LightWing II creates a mysterious sensation of tactile data. It allows the visitor to navigate through holographic spaces and to explore responsive narratives.
