Futuresense

The installation explores dataism by bridging physical and digital spaces, featuring non-human digital entities called datahumanoids. Designed as an artbook employing data-driven design, data visualisation, and creative coding, it reflects the fragility of human data-based identity.

Since the beginning of time, man has sought to understand the foundations of existence and the forces shaping the surrounding world. The advance of technology has the biggest impact on the future of the environment and various species, resulting in radical changes. EXOSKIN is an art project inspired by the realm of augmented sensations, aiming to explore unconscious feelings and connections associated with body prostheses and human + machine interaction with a focus on intimacy and eroticism.

The Dung Dkar Cloak is an interactive musical interface with touch and subtle gestures creating real-time sound compositions. Developed at the Material Research Hub of the Innovation Center at MOME, the installation explores the connections between fractal geometry, sound synthesis, digital jacquard textiles, and multi-sensory perception.

Synthetic and organic lives are equal in the eyes of gods

After weaving human fates for millennia, the Moiræ turn their attention to a rudimentary AI: a cellular automaton. Synthetic cells are born from chaos and randomness harvested from the environment, and as the three Greek goddesses of destiny spin, measure, and cut, synthetic lives unravel as holes punched on a long strip of paper. When a synthetic lifeform's time is up, the thread is cut, and the sole proofs of once existing lives collect under the installation in an ever-growing pile of synthetic sediment.

Growing and eating spirulina microalgae

The project is aimed at developing a photobioreactor for cultivating microalgae – the superfood of the future. It seeks to explore the potential of microalgae for small-scale production, seamlessly integrated into urban environments, and as part of the research and design process, examines various methods of processing microalgae, along with their composition and practical applications. The compact growth unit is equipped with a set of tools designed to facilitate both the production and consumption of microalgae.

The book-app hybrid is an experimental reimagining of Don DeLillo’s novel White Noise, blending language, code, visual notation, and sounds to create a multi-sensory experience. The project aims to redefine the reading experience and foster a deeper connection between the reader and the text. By introducing interactive elements such as coded puzzles and a visual reading journal that generates unique sound representations, the project reflects the reader's individual interpretations and emotional responses to the novel. Its goal is to bridge the gap between print and digital media while exploring innovative multimedia approaches.

A Digital Product for Mediating Contemporary Practices of Death, Grief and Memorialisation

The project explores how to maintain control over our lives by creating a digital legacy at the end of life, illustrated through the diary of an unknown person receiving palliative care. The experiment aims to investigate how we can preserve connections with loved ones while fostering introspection and maintaining a sense of agency and control.

The project examines the transformation of our relationship with physical materials in the age of digital technology through an experimental interactive textile installation that responds to its environment and moves without being touched. The installation reflects on the diminishing role of tactile cognition. Though both the handcrafted structure and the viewer are directly present in the physical space, the connection between them is established through digital technology, eliminating one of the most fundamental forms of sensory engagement with textiles: touch. The movement triggered by human presence further aims to emphasise the structural composition of the woven material.

The series is based on stock photos found on the Internet, presenting pleasant but not particularly artistic depictions of nature. Today, these unreal, characterless images make up the majority of our impressions of nature. Zagyvai personalises these images by transforming them using analogue image-making tools and her unique perspective. Different techniques and layers come together as a montage, creating a manipulated portrayal of nature. While the result remains fictional, it conveys a subjective experience of nature in an abstract way.

The kinetic installation spent 100 hours in machine learning, attempting to maintain the attention of the viewers of an online video chat platform by adjusting its movements. The fundamental question posed by the work is to what extent this behaviour is anthropomorphic, both in practice and as a gesture of unnecessary, self-deceptive effort, given that in this form, machine learning can never truly find the ideal solution.

Can we truly disappear from the online space in a future where artificial intelligence can keep our virtual selves alive, even through analogue methods? Inspired by nature and biomimicry, the project draws parallels between the defence strategies used by boxfish against predators and privacy protection. The project questions the legitimacy of current data collection practices that normalise the excessive sharing of personal information and explores the possibilities of erasing our online identities from cyberspace under the principle known as the "right to be forgotten".