2025

[SUN] Flower Plasma explores the ecological and geopolitical meanings of sunflowers alongside the science of Alfvén waves moving through the sun’s corona and interstellar space. The installation features a two-channel video of the Large Plasma Device, sunflower fields, bees, and microscopic sunflower cells that resemble the sun’s surface.

The Occasional Museum of an Incredible Landscape (MOPI) is a nomadic, ephemeral museum rethinking our relationship with landscapes, ecosystems, and collective memory. Created by Argentine artists Julieta García Vázquez and Ana Vogelfang, MOPI merges participatory art, environmental research, and territorial practices.

Inspired by the symbiotic relationship between corals and microorganisms, Christopher Bellamy has developed a contemporary living material that encapsulates bioluminescent microalgae. This living material glows in response to touch and requires only sunlight to survive, with a lifespan of at least six months.

During a research residency with Künstlerische Tatsachen at the University of Ulm’s TRR234 CataLight, I explored molecular light-driven catalysis in soft matter systems. Using near-infrared LiDAR, I scanned so-called “invasive” plants, creating point clouds that reimagine their presence in a sci-fi-inspired world with two suns.

How will we write in the future, and why should we design “seamful” interactions? The Large Language Writer (LLW) is an experimental design project that explores honest interactions with Large Language Models (LLMs).

We tested whether passively experiencing motions that have been not experienced could surmount the ceiling effect and enhance the already well-honed skills of experts. We utilized a novel exoskeleton robot attachable to fingers.

At the heart of this project is a plant so rare that it stands on the brink of extinction. This plant, the Encephalartos woodii (E. woodii), a cycad classified as ‘extinct in the wild,’ is known from a single pollen-producing specimen found in South Africa’s oNgoye Forest in the late 19th century.