Laura Beloff

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Laura Beloff (Ph.D.) is a researcher and artist working in the cross section of art / technology / science. Over the last decade her focus has been a human in a global society trying to adapt to complex technologically enhanced world. Her recent works take a form of wearable objects, participatory and networked structures and installations.
Beloff is exhibiting widely in Europe and worldwide: in Hamburg and in Helsinki 2012, in Vienna 2011, in Brazil 2008 and at the Venice Biennale 2007. She is frequently lecturing about her research and practice in universities and various conferences.
2002-06 she was a professor for media arts at the Art Academy in Oslo, Norway.
2007-11 she was awarded a five-year grant by the Finnish state.
2009-2010, 2011 she has been a Visiting Professor at The University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 2012 she was appointed as an associate professor at the IT-University, Copenhagen.

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  • 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.
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