Media Arts and Technology

I would like to discuss two artists who take contrasting approaches to artificial intelligence. The first is Kate Crawford’s Calculating Empires, and the second is Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised: Machine Hallucinations. https://ars.electronica.art/starts-prize/files/2024/06/calculating-empires_1-osserv...

The Robotic Chair is a kinetic sculpture modeled after a wooden chair that repeatedly breaks apart and reassembles itself. Using an internal system of mechanical components and computer vision, the chair autonomously disassembles and reconstructs without any human assistance. This continuous cycle e...

Although VR is often perceived as a cutting-edge technology, its history is much older than many people assume. The head-mounted display based form of VR that we are familiar with today was already developed in the late 1960s by Ivan Sutherland and his students at Harvard, and VR has continued to ev...

I have been developing a VR project that uses breathing as an input signal to control visual effects in Unity. At first, I tried to connect the biosignal sensor using OSC, but the connection was unstable. So I built a custom network server to transmit the data to Unity instead. After successfully re...

This week, I explored the works of Sabina Hyoju Ahn and Ryan Millett. Their most recent project, Plasphere, is an audiovisual installation that examines the coexistence of altered natural environments and the living organisms that have evolved to adapt to them under human influence. The artists focu...

We live surrounded by countless streams of data, often without realizing it. At this very moment, weather observations, biometric readings from smartwatches, credit card transactions, and electricity consumption records are continuously being collected. Yet this endless procession of numbers remains...

Microsoft Photosynth is an experimental technology developed in the mid-2000s. Photosynth was a system that could reconstruct three-dimensional spaces from ordinary two-dimensional photographs. In other words, it transformed flat images into immersive, navigable 3D environments — something quite rev...

Microsoft Photosynth is an experimental technology developed in the mid-2000s. Photosynth was a system that could reconstruct three-dimensional spaces from ordinary two-dimensional photographs. In other words, it transformed flat images into immersive, navigable 3D environments — something quite rev...

This project visualizes the act of breathing as a bridge between the physical and the virtual body. By combining a breath sensor with a VR headset’s passthrough function and a Unity VFX mesh-particle system, the installation lets users experience the sensation of leaving their own body — an Out-of-B...

A-volve (1994) by Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau is an interactive installation that allows visitors to participate in the creation of virtual life forms. Through audience input, these digital organisms come to life, interacting both with viewers and with one another to form an infinite lif...