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▒ winter studio visits ▒ - a delight to share my current research in metamorphic ecologies with the iconic @hansulrichobrist and @bettinakorek from @serpentineuk 🔹 (Japanese @bokksu matcha mochi and @puffyparis cookies not shown)
flows, folds, fields i: pharmacopeia — silk fibroin crystallization, cocoon, conductive thread, photopolymer resin, chromatic ink, aluminum, glass, light ii: crystallisation detail iii. bioresin recipe testing iv. trends in silk biomaterials …
1314; for a lifetime 一生一世 trace gestures silhouettes on scroll (afternoon light bending) remaining days of 2025 ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
2025; guillotine lepidoptera (scaled wing) ░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░ 2025; peripatetic Davos - Barcelona - Hanoi - Hong Kong - Riyadh - Bristol - Istanbul - Brighton - Los Angeles - Solomeo - …
The body is a generative system, 2025. Spatial data, custom RNN model + robotic system, LED mesh One of several new works exhibited at my solo show Ecologies of Becoming exhibition at KUNSTVEREIN HEILBRONN, …
🎈gemini season, nyc Chinatown ‘26 - grateful for you this past year and the last (you know who you are). - much more to come; - Upcoming: Basel, London, CPH, São Paulo + NYC …
all drawing is memory, labour, and time ~~ MEMORY(2017) now on view in the why we make galleries at @vamuseum east. the first AI model collected by a major cultural institution. the acquisition is …
Time of molting Looming Operation: prototyping an agentic system for rewilding bombyx mori; automatic rearing protocols, modular threshholds 60 49 ─── 6 ─── 6 (unchanged: yin) ─── 5 ─── 5 (unchanged: yang) ─ ─ …
time is moving very quickly and very slowly Performance lecture in Venice Wed May 6th 5pm next week ~~ see you there ~~ —- Presenting Looming Operations — a new lecture performance at @berggruendiedo …
Presenting Looming Operations — a new lecture performance at @berggruendiedo for Palazzo Diedo Opening Week. @berggrueninst Wed May 6, 17:00 · Venice Before the Jacquard loom taught binary to humans, silk had already been …
Hot Hatchling Summer explorations in co-regulation pre-molt; random May; back to New York in June
Time of moulting ( interleave, interlace ); studio distortions in mirrored head; dispersing lines (dry / wet ); Gaussian blur ( melting in heat ); Bombyx mori and Prussian blue ( labatut, translated ); …
When a silkworm spins a cocoon it is a form of drawing; labour, memory, movement, time. The shared signal structure is what threads the silkworms to the robotic system. The biosignal is registered through …
Drawing chimes with the needs of the moment, allowing us to dream and endless dream. dexter_todrawistobehumanDownload
Neither individual or collective identities are fixed, you can remain yourself while at the same time being interested in ‘the exterior’ and forming a relationship with ‘the other ‘ Glissants archipelago via HUO Hans …
biosignal & gestural data suspended in a drop of water sketch here
pneuma and psyche; exocerebrum experiments — human machine gesture (barta via wilcox via qusṭā ibn lūqā)
calligraphy and custom silver silk fibroin composite ink;exocerebrum experiments — human machine gesturedetail from RECURSION Series; process film
performance as vitality — energy work, feedback channels; devising a new drawing performance inspired by metamorphic cycles and organic computation i. Ecologies of Becoming, Raphael figures performance in London ii. Graphite drawing on vellum …
silk fibroin crystallization, cocoon, conductive thread, photopolymer resin, chromatic ink, glass, light
Spatial data, custom robotics, led meshSPATIALITY, D.O.U.G._6Installation viewEcologies of Becoming exhibition at KUNSTVEREIN HEILBRONN, Germany, 2025 “I’m drawn to the de- and re-materialisation of aura through meditation and biomateriality. The investigation of aura, authorship, …
New York friends, end of Oct; come through ~ Future Histories Studios x Guggenheim Museum ——- Unsettling Intelligences: Politics of Reason through Art and AI On October 24, 2025, @futurehistories.studio Future Histories Studio (Stony …
CHRONOGLYPH I (studio proof)interweaving simulation and tactile expressions custom 3d RNN Model, sculptural drawing data, paint, photopolymer resin2025
Some days I’m a pendulum that exists on a planet that periodically loses gravity.
𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘤𝘦𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘴 ( 𝘰𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘺) 𝘪𝘴, 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸, 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵. 𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘺𝘵𝘩 …
To further this idea, working with natural organisms introduces growth and decay into the artistic process. How do these biological timelines influence the temporal aspect of your art, and how do you negotiate control …
embodiment, extension, excavation, .exe lately / always
"Every act of communication is a miracle of translation. At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potentials in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch …
"Indeed, one of the major failures of the twentieth century was the inability to articulate the almost standardized ecological thinking endowed with a strong European humanism; technology was received as a provocation to either …
on view last month at DER TANK: The Centre for Art Gender and Nature as part of @HEK_Basel's #MESHFESTIVAL
Been feeling kinda quiet since I got back from the northernmost north; amongst capturing the experience through moving image, sound, it was necessary to experience the Arctic Svalbard without editorialising, without narrative. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 …
Preparing for an expedition to the Arctic Circle in June; thinking about movement, ice, climate, and time. Views over Iceland omw to Toronto for #robarch2024
🎶 Summer speaking dates 🎶 On my way to Toronto as a keynote speaker for #ROBARCH2024 with @robotsinarchitecture. Excited to be reunited with @maria_yablonina and @madeline.gannon, two of my favourite contemporary roboticists.
Silk fibroin is an insoluble protein produced by Bombyx mori silkworm. It is the major component of the silkworm cocoon. Due to its unique structural properties, low immunogenicity and stability at low pH, Silk …
[Verse 1]We three, we're all aloneLiving in a memoryMy echo, my shadow, and me [Verse 2]We three, we're not a crowdWe're not even companyMy echo, my shadow, and me [Bridge]What good is the moonlightThe …
I've been drawing sculptures in air inspired by animalia and myth; the tail of a serpent as ouroboros, eternal return, eclipsing time.
to travel to the next solar eclipse in Spain, August 12, 2026, after convos w David Pfau Below is a crescent-laden photo from the last one at Bell Labs Laureate garden with Lindsay Howard …
detritus & mechanism, today; morning light and tracing sculptural encasings for cocoons, trying to give my silkworms a good life while they're here, before death and/or metamorphosis
Learning how to form habitats; Studies in observation, metamorphosis and care #ROS
captured my own movements as spatial data to create these GENESIS sculptural forms — each piece is an array of positions, gestures, traces of the body in physical space
fieldnotes relational modes, real and imagined i. Exquisite Corpus performanceii. A language of linesiii. Sprouting -- Hexagram 3 -- First I CHING reading of 2024iv. diagramv. Studiomatevi. except from the Twofold Commitment by Trinh …
physical manifestation of my speculative robotics series (ongoing) Still entranced by the tactility of rapid prototyping, visual properties of clear resin. Maybe glass next? Title: #kathyackerImage: Resin print of sculpture created in #VR
..Inspired by xenobots-- constructed of frog cells, computational organisms. Machines made of silicon with proto-cognitive capabilities. How might these nano-organisms "think" differently -- think alongside our own wetware, differently? And what role does anthropomorphism …
Inspired by the materiality of the Mantis shrimp. A research process of energy conservation through it's internal geometric structure. (elastic to kinetic energy conversion through bio-mimicy)..modelled in VR, converting to AR prototype for a …
// my last performance of Exquisite Corpus with D.O.U.G._4 // I sometimes wonder what the next performance will be like, after a year of lockdown. Exquisite Corpus was the first time I brought in …
..People sometimes ask me how drawing with D.O.U.G. has changed my process. Here's and image of me preparing some installation drawings (#chiaro_oscuro) from a decade ago. Breaking out from software into gesture, back to …
. . Hydrophyte leaf patterns, water adaptations suspended in air. The fractal ribs create pockets that allow the leaves to float above the surface of the water. The Victoria amazonica was also Inspiration for …
..Building interactions implies sovereignty, detachments disguised as world-building-- God-mode. vs Building (inter)Relation. Implies inclusion, " I" is situated within the relation. Dynamics of relations -- equitable relationships, requires trust and necessitates attachment, recognition, collaboration. …
.. "This flood of convergences, publishing itself in the guise of the commonplace. No longer is the latter an accepted generality, suitable and dull no longer is it deceptively obvious, exploiting common sense-it is, …
... ¹ Still from a private performance in a Mexican jungle² grasping SECOND NATURE, AR experiments in Lockdown³ drawing a memory⁴ excerpt from Anna Anlin Cheng's Ornamentalism.." What happens to our notions of the …
feat. Drawing Operations (robotic) Unit, Generation 4Paintings as sound compositions Referencing John Cage's Fontina Mix, 1958, a provocation for "musical scores of indeterminacy", these experiments were created in collaboration with D.O.U.G._4, with contact mics …
Intertwining my meditation and art practice. They're both simple interventions that shape my days -- alternating between varying states of flow, alternatives to the addiction to control, reliance on certainty
I used to draw differently.My approach to drawing and machine learning, data, and robotics started as a way to evolve my drawing ability by designing artificial intelligence systems, to explore collaboration with a robotic …
Learning shelter, communal thinking, escapist magical realism // mycelial machinations -- wild / life // witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) // Music by @a_q_u_a_r_i_a_n // mycelium electron microscopy // …
witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) // // petal pirouette --wild / life // / orchid formations embedded in air / . #artstudio #wildlife #drawing #ecologiesofbecomingwith #mixedreality #virtualreality #augmentedreality …
Corpus I from the series ( distance ) in place, 2020, graphite on paper | collaboration with D.O.U.G._5. All images courtesy of the artist. As external realities we once knew have dissolved and fragmented over the …
. . During quarantine, I've been gazing at the city through its public cameras, searching for absence of crowds. It’s an activity that offers some small assurance that people outside of my periphery might …
Missing this peaceful moment from my last performance. I like that the image captures the inherent stillness of the process of drawing. Despite uncertainty, the lines are grounding..I'm slowly working on a tele-present version …
I've been recording my EEG data while meditating a few times a day in isolation. When I do, I see visions of microbial cells, vertiginous circuits, plants / machines co-naturality. ..Preparation for an upcoming …
( Noticing attunes us to worlds otherwise ). . Conservation status: vulnerableReproduction: sexual and asexualCarnivorous plantLifespan: 20 years .
.Thinking about starting a drawing live stream from my studio in Brooklyn, a space to draw together as I iterate and experiment with new performance concepts around telepresence and sound meditation... How can we …
🌹 as simulation, mutualism, mutation, process, and memory . ~ Process artefact from upcoming project exploring biometrics and digitized organic material .~ Slow motion capture of a bee pollination in Lahore, Pakistan.~ Drawing study …
We made a film for #OmniaPerOmnia and it was a wild ride. (This is the teaser ~) . . Thank you to @mynameiscutter for sharing the vision, lending your talents to the project, and assembling the star team …
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𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵
drawing alongside robotic systems since 2015
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embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
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