On Oribotics

Matthew Gardiner’s artistic practice flows between digital and physical mediums, playing in the in-between. Sometimes experiments lead to the digitalisation of material phenomena and sometimes to the fabrication and programming of materials. The intersections, and emergent properties of the new object, field or device often reveal new inspirations and unexpected questions. Gardiner is currently Ars Electronica Futurelab’s Head of Art Science Research Strategies.

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Kanata Warisaya is a PhD student at TachiLab. His primary research interests are tessellation-based design and fabrication. He studies tessellation in art and nature and applies their principles to the design and modular construction of curved surfaces and mechanisms using computational geometry. His digitally fabricated physical models enable people to experience assembling and transforming them, which helps convey the concept of his research.

Luca Zimmermann specializes in mechanical folding. He studied at ETH Zürich, where he focused his Bachelor’s and Master’s on biomechanics, structural analysis and optimization, automated generative design, and design for additive manufacturing. In his PhD, he built his scientific home in the realm of rigid origami where he discovered some quite fundamental folding mathematics. Since 2024, his company ORIKIN focuses on large-scale, interactive kinetic sculptures.

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Hiroki Minami is a Master's student at TachiLab. His primary research interest is in the design and fabrication of mechanisms based on the theory of rigid origami. He studies the kinematic principles of origami and linkage mechanisms, applying them to the design of new mechanisms through the combination of their patterns. His work explores diverse possibilities from simple principles, extending into both engineering and installation art, and demonstrating broad developmental potential.