Soft Interfaces Lab (Judit Eszter Kárpáti PhD, Esteban de la Torre) focuses on research and development of active matter, programmable physical materials and somaesthetic human-computer interaction. Investigation focuses on haptic technologies, dynamic surfaces, emerging materials, hyper/augmented textiles and responsive environments. We aim at seamlessly uniting the ever expanding digital virtuality with the physical reality by bridging atoms and bits, in order to create organic, tangible experiences and expressive interfaces. Located at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Innovation Center Budapest, Hungary.
Lecturer, chair and organiser of Future Materials Conference at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design.
Augmented Naturing - Papp Anett x EJTECH at Future Materials Conference, Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, 2022
Multimedia installation. Wheat grass, speakers, custom electronics, Bela, iMac
A remarkable ambition of contemporary art is to erase boundaries. by navigating on the margins of nature and man-made territory, crossover solution emerge. Separate genres, disciplines feed off each other, they can stretch each other's limits, and along analogies, then as a consequence of their migration, they can reinterpret their own definition. Textile is a genre that arises along the principle of interaction. Root systems that grow intelligently can develop into a continuous and connected surface, into textile. By using the set of rules that guide the functioning of plant parts in motion, cooperation can emerge between the creator and the plant co-creator. This connection facilitates the understanding of textile, and at the same time, it opens up new horizons.
Real time biodata signification through auscultation of the micro voltages existing in all plant organisms. Through bioelectrical signal processing these results are quantised in order to control synthesisers, manifesting as music generated by the living plant.
CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT / MULTISENSORY TEXTILE INNOVATIONS, 2022 - ongoing
The research and development of new augmented materials, specifically soft interfaces, to produce an intuitive, non-intrusive platform between digital environments and the physical world. The research focuses on human-material interaction and multisensorial experiences which extend the user's perception and go beyond flat, conventional interface design. This approach is addressed through the creation of new augmented, neo-analog materials. Specifically exploring cross modal perception and poly sensorial integration through the textile medium in order to produce an intuitive, non-intrusive platform between the digital environments and the physical world.
PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS / SOFT NOTIFICATIONS, 2020-2021
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We had been working with techno-organic systems created from living organisms within the hub research project Data Gardening. We were exploring non-human intelligence and the extension of communication via micro-voltage auscultation, action potential signaling and interaction with plant life forms as partners, systems, and mediums through which we can recalibrate our relationship with nature.
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