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Remote Materialities

Future Scenographies with Robotic interfaces

Robotic devices are leaving their industrial habitats and entering natural or constructed environments. How do we create and interact with and within the spaces shared by these new materialities and hidden agencies? What are the intermediate scenarios between the utopian and the dystopian visions of our coexistence? Might these interactions occur on an architectural scale (as in Price’s Fun Palace) or a molecular one (as in Lem’s The Invincible)?

This year's interdisciplinary module theme was “Twilight”. Twilight is literally a half-light, but it can describe a moment transition or a state of decline. Caught in the twilight, we can not know if we are waxing or waning, coming or going. Yet, we can celebrate and investigate this moment of flux, oscillating in between apprehension and elation, big and small, local and remote. As an interface between digital and physical, remotely controlled robotic arms are our engines of inquiry for these spaces in future scenarios of materiality, perception, creativity and living.

This module combined both theoretical and practical inputs in an interweaving format. The course consisted of lectures by tutors and guest speakers, text studies and discussions in order to build a critical and creative approach towards HRI (human-robot interaction) and the state-of-the-art robotics within a spatial context. Those conceptual explorations were complemented with remote experiments with a simple robotic platform installed within chosen contextualized dioramas at the ZHdK campus. Critical and creative approaches combined in this course allowed students to develop concepts about robotics understood as “more of a bridge, than a destination” (Lord David Puttnam) to a broader understanding of our relationships with technology and the physical world.

In interdisciplinary teams, students did design and realize scenographies that unfold particular visions by combining panorama images, objects and animated robotic arms. These temporary, interactive dioramas unveiling their intention through were documented in a short video format.

Modulleitung:
Luke Franzke (Dozent Interaction Design)
Maria Smigielska (Dozentin Interaction Design)
Lisa Ochsenbein (Dozentin Industrial Design)

Guest lecturers:
Emmanuelle Chiappone-Piriou, TU Vienna
Dr. James Bern, MIT
Dr. Mihye An, ETH Zurich

Post Perceptive Spaces

In the context of remote happenings, can the authenticity of images and video material be clearly defined or are the boundaries between reality and fiction increasingly becoming a question of faith? Through the mesmerizing installation “Post Perceptive Spaces” we are observing an undefined robotic action, leaving (uncomfortably large) room for interpretation with regards to space, size and significance.

Autor*innen:
Felix Brunold
Aathmigan Jegatheeswaran
Tim Oechslin
Nora Waldispuehl

Post Perceptive Spaces. © ZHdK 2021
Post Perceptive Spaces. © ZHdK 2021
Post Perceptive Spaces. © ZHdK 2021
Post Perceptive Spaces. © ZHdK 2021
Post Perceptive Spaces. © ZHdK 2021
Post Perceptive Spaces. © ZHdK 2021

Black Box

Black Box is an interactive installation, a light and playful game with dark undertones at the subsurface, conceived as a reflection of our behavior and willingness to interchange within digitized spaces for socializing and information exchange. What is the currency of these tradings? And what values do these currencies have in widely spread narratives concerning this media? And what might meanwhile be left in the dark?

Autor*innen:
Mai Watanabe
Lino Fischer
Dimitris Giannoulas

Black Box. © ZHdK 2021
Black Box. © ZHdK 2021
Black Box. © ZHdK 2021
Black Box. © ZHdK 2021
Black Box. © ZHdK 2021
Black Box. © ZHdK 2021

Melting Dependencies

As nature and humanity slowly pass away due to their transience, artificial robotics will keep on going, even if their purpose got lost.

In a perpetual installation, a robot arm keeps executing its inflicted task to serve humanity and constantly builds but never comes to an end, interpreting twilight as an undefined state.

Autor*innen:
Chanel Liang
Kilian Ettlinger
Meret Jans

Melting Dependencies. © ZHdK 2021
Melting Dependencies. © ZHdK 2021
Melting Dependencies. © ZHdK 2021
Melting Dependencies. © ZHdK 2021

Inter pha Z e

In an increasingly digitized and connected world remote operations become more and more essential and versatile. The way we interact with technologies in that context highly depends on the design of interfaces and what information they display.

This project explores a fiction where crowdsourced playful actions via a digital interfaces affect the real world in a direct and unpredictable manner and tries to give a glimpse at the layers behind the screen which tend to be as blurry and hard to get as the light when the sun sets at dusk.

Autor*innen:
Samuel Marti
Ramona Rüttimann
Manuel Wirth

Inter pha Z e. © ZHdK 2021
Inter pha Z e. © ZHdK 2021
Inter pha Z e. © ZHdK 2021
Inter pha Z e. © ZHdK 2021
Inter pha Z e. © ZHdK 2021
Inter pha Z e. © ZHdK 2021