Soft Robotics and Posthuman Entities
(2020)
author(s): Mads Bering Christiansen, Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Anne-Sofie Emilie Belling
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
Through collaborative media arts practice we explore texture morphing soft robotics as an artistic medium of expression. We present an installation, Homo Viridis, that features a soft robotic interface developed to mediate signals between a vascular plant and a human body. The exposition paper discusses how Homo Viridis stages a situation of hybridity where individual, more-than-human subjectivities are mentally and physically intertwined. In conclusion, the paper reflects on how connecting organisms through soft robotic interfaces can actualize visions of a novel being - a ‘posthuman entity’. We argue that such a being might be physically composed of organic and synthetic elements that come together, but that it can also exist as a conceptual persona that may initiate discussions on what humans can become.
Overalls - complex document(s) - an artistic approach
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Niels Windfeld Lund
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I want to show that a pair of overalls can be a document in many senses, and thus demonstrate that the complementary relationship between materiality, sociality and conceptuality is a very complex relationship.
I will use an artistic approach to show the complex relationship and make an exposition of verbal text and images, consisting of 4 parts:
1. Origin of overalls
A short history of overalls - denim pants first with suspenders and later with bibs. They go back to the 18th century, were mass-produced by Levi Strauss and Lee and became popular work garment and later for leisure and fashion for both men and women.
2. "Broken in" overalls
A document of use and often hard work, shown in faded denim. They can be used for generations, with overalls handed over from father to sons or daughters
3. Mending overalls
A document of repairing overalls by mending and patching, documenting traditions for mending clothes
4. Overalls as wearable art
A document of art shown by the visible mending and patches making overalls into pieces of art work
5. Document theory
Overalls - a showcase of the complexity of the complementary relationship between materiality, sociality and conceptuality
