Steering Through the Inner Residue

Steering Through the Inner Residue Ting-Chun Liu & Leon-Etienne Kühr Description What happens when a system confronts its own output? Steering Through the Inner Residue is a video installation that uses recursive feedback to investigate the media specificity of generative AI. Image outputs from diffusion models are reintroduced as inputs, without any textual prompt, bypassing…

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RPM (Routines Per Minute)

RPM (Routines Per Minute) ROBO Educational & Research Robotics Description RPM (Routines Per Minute) is a kinetic installation featuring a set of black tracks on a floor. Upon this circuit, a colony of custom line-following robots operate at frantic, varying speeds. Some race with aggressive, high-speed "ambition", while others stutter and stall, physically manifesting the…

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CARE POD: From the Delivery Box as an Object to a Micro-Space of Care

CARE POD: From the Delivery Box as an Object to a Micro-Space of Care Stavros Theophanous Description This research-driven architectural model investigates the hidden physical networks behind digital food delivery in Nicosia. While delivery apps project an illusion of immaterial consumption, couriers navigate a car-centric infrastructure, creating unseen mobility networks. CARE POD: From the Delivery…

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Quantum Jungle

Quantum Jungle Robin Baumgarten Description Quantum Jungle is a tactile interactive light installation that invites guests to shape waves of light and motion inspired by the strange beauty of quantum physics. It spans a wall of over 1,000 touch-sensitive metal springs that trigger ever-shifting patterns, rippling, colliding and collapsing in real time, creating a hypnotic…

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Form-finding of Minimal Surfaces

Form-finding of Minimal Surfaces Advanced Computer-Aided Design | Department of Architecture UCY Description Form-finding of Minimal Surfaces refers to student projects developed in the undergraduate course Advanced Computer-Aided Design in the Department of Architecture at the University of Cyprus. The course focuses on using computer software and fabrication mechanisms as tools for architectural design, prototyping…

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Reactive Matter: Voxels Structure

Reactive Matter: Voxels Structure Scenocosme : Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt Description Reactive Matter: Voxels Structure is a sculptural, interactive artwork composed of several independent cellular robotic structures linked together. The structure's bricks are like voxels with AI in a real physical space. The sculpture reacts like a living organism. Each electronic cell…

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Warscrolling

Warscrolling m22 Description War has become mundane in algorithmic social media. We can observe it casually while eating a meal or relieving ourselves. The platforms enable forensic investigation: Combatants share DIY weapons, ammunition details and field methods, bringing viewers closer to destruction than ever. Warscrolling is a form of doomscrolling that documents the hyperreality of…

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UNDA

UNDA Clemens Hornemann Description In the reactive installation UNDA, digital communication, the invisible flow holding our modern world together, becomes physically tangible. In basins of black-coloured water, fine waves, interference patterns and turbulent upwellings emerge in response to mobile data use around the installation. The system measures and converts the upload and download streams of…

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The Thirsty Cloud

The Thirsty Cloud N’Found Objects Description Although they seem immaterial, data flows rely on actual material flows. As AI doubles data flows every two years, the number of data centres worldwide grows by 20% each year. These sites — blind buildings where data is processed and distributed — need permanent cooling systems, and the cheapest…

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