Studio updates.
Patrick Winston was a pioneer in artificial intelligence and also happened to be my mentor and advisor during my research period at MIT. NeverMind appears in his last book. You can get a copy of the book here. We miss you, Patrick— thank you for the inspiration, generosity, and kindness.
NeverMind is part of the selected bibliography in M.R. O’Connor’s new book, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World. It’s a fascinating book on spatial navigation and memory. Get a copy of Wayfinding here.
Learning new synthetic biology lab skills with How to Grow Almost Anything, led by David Kong, George Church and Joe Jacobson. Every week, I will report about a set of new lab techniques and protocols and apply them to wet lab experiments. Some topics we will cover include next generation synthesis, genome engineering, protein design, DNA nanostructures, engineering the gut microbiome, gene drives, and others. Read more on my HTGAA website.
We presented an installation for “Cocoon: A Programmable Dream Machine”at Ars Electronica in Austria, Linz as part of the Art and Science Exhibits. Our contruction had three areas: one to learn about our sleep prototypes, another to demo them, and finally a hammock to try them on. This year the festival had over 105,000 visitors. Our project was featured in the festival video teaser and “Best Of” videos! We presented our work in the Arts and Science Artist Talks. Check out the festival catalog and videos.
Really excited to present Cocoon at the 2018 Beijing Media Art Biennale. The theme of the exhibition is “Post Life” and it focuses on how the ancient concept of life itself has been expanded in the context of the rapid development of biological genes, artificial intelligence, robots, and the subsequent increase of attention paid to anthropological theories.
We have been selected to exhibit at this year's edition of the Ars Electronica Festival! I’m posting here some of our concept sketches. We will transplant our ongoing research on sleep into the electronic arts context. We will perform live experiments using our custom build wearables that focus on tracking, influencing and extracting content from dreams across different levels of consciousness. News on the MIT Media Lab website.
A group of researchers at the MIT Fluid Interfaces Lab and I have launched the Engineering Dreams project. The initiative is a collection of novel interventions developed from the ground up to interface with sleep and dreams.
Currently working on a version of Dormio that resembles the original steel ball method that Edison, Tesla, Dali, Poe or Beethoven used for creative insight.
Dormio has been featured in many news outlets, including 60 Minutes, BBC, Vice, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, Wired, Qrius, Huffington Post, The Independent, Daily Mail and others. Hear me talk about the project on La Mecanica del Caracol, a spanish science podcast.
Adam and I presented experiments on Chroma at Berlin's Transmediale, Rainbow Unicorn, ACUD, Harvard MetaLab.
This semester I’m taking Neil Gershenfeld’s prototyping class on How to Make Almost Anything. Each week we learn about a new technique enabled by digital fabrication and apply it towards weekly assignments. Some of the skills covered include electronics design and fabrication, molding and casting, embedded programming, interface design, 3D printing, composites, input devices, output devices, networking and more. Follow my progress on my class website.
Gabi wins the 2017 Streetboard World Championship riding the board we designed together! Check out more information on the project here. Some more press on the event here.
NeverMind gets the best SMarchS Thesis Award at MIT! The project has also been published on the Innovation Issue of Domus magazine.
NeverMind was awarded the Best Poster Award at the 29th ACM User Interface Software and Technology Symposium (UIST)! We presented an AR interface to help people memorize (almost) anything. Check out the short paper here.
We won the 1st Prize for the Headquarters for UBS in Zurich! Construction will start mid 2017. Check out press on Baunetz, Tages Anzeiger, Zurcher Zeitung, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Hochparterre Wettbewerbe, Finews.ch and Der Landebote. More info on the EM2N website.
Our competition entry for the Aquarium in Basel was featured on Afasia, Divisare and Beta Architecture.
Varia and I got the second place prize at the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) Student Competition! The project is also published on Issue 69 of the AIAS CRIT Magazine and will be exhibited at the 2010 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in Miami.
