Exposition

Soft Robotics and Posthuman Entities (2020)

Mads Bering Christiansen, Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Anne-Sofie Emilie Belling

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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.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsSoft Robotics, Posthuman, wearable art, Media Arts, plants
date29/12/2020
published29/12/2020
last modified29/12/2020
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightMads Bering
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/549014/605906/50
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.549014
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue22. 22


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