Hybrid Systems - Intelligent Bodies



We will explore intelligences of bodies in multiple forms:
Invite artists working with robots as guests & collaborators

As a case study, we will develop a network of small, interacting nodes that use long strings installed in the corridors of the Medienhaus to communicate acoustically. Each node connects to >2 wires by listening and transmitting.

We will invent behaviors for the nodes: How do they interpret what they “hear”? How do they transform this “information” and what do they tell their neighbours about it? How do the wires themselves modify, filter, influence the transmission of these acoustic streams?

In Hybrid Systems, we focus on the HW side of the project: physical installation and tuning of the wire channels, and the points of transduction between the mechanical and the electrical/digital domain.

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