I am so excited to see my name published in Dezeen, a publication I have been following for years. And to see how my work has been received, understood and contextualised in these strange times by the author. Thank you for that!
Creature features
“How to explain the abundance of weird critters, quasi-terrestrial beings and ambiguous entities in this year’s DDW?
I will never forget Laura A. Dima‘s interactive artwork The Alien Between Us at Manifestations, which invites people to cradle warm, breathing robotic creatures that seem sweet and helpless despite looking vaguely like disembodied organs, or artist Isabell Bullerschen‘s goo-like imagined life form Isperia at Other Intelligences, which you could get to know via VR while sitting wrapped in its physical plush tentacles.
Other Intelligences also featured media artist Sookyun Yang’s Exotic Species in the Robot Ecosystem, which uses AI to imagine a world of non-humanoid robots mashing up different characteristics from the animal kingdom, while an exhibition by the Fontys Research Group of Interaction Design titled Human Zoo (top image) features slightly more familiar forms.
These projects speak to the human drive to recognise and protect life, even in its most liminal guises. It seems very apt for a time when designers are grappling with ideas of “more-than-human” intelligences, whether they be natural or artificial.”