Sensing – Vibrations

Sensing – Vibrations On June 2, Cluster member Léa Perraudin spoke at InterSensing Vol. 1, an interdisciplinary symposium at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Aarhus University,  organized by Andrei Kalinichev and Jussi Parikka. The one-day symposium unfolded across two invited talk panels, a future sensing workshop, and a concluding roundtable that collectively explored the epistemic, technological, artistic, and political dimensions of environmental sensing. more

Object Space Agency | Publications | Stretching Materialities | Air | Climate | Cloud | More-Than-Human | Sensing – Vibrations | Stone | Textiles | Willow | XR | Performance We are excited to announce that the latest Cluster publication Stretching Materialities. Negotiating Boundaries in Exhibition Research is now available in print and Open Access with adocs publishing. Stretching Materialities is an experimental approach to rethinking exhibitions in terms of »active matter«: not as a presentation of material knowledge and practices per se, but as an interactive and participatory research approach to new forms of activity emerging from the poiesis of the material. The interdisciplinary exhibition at Tieranatomisches Theater (TA T) Berlin experimented with curatorial processes, the existing environment and its material-energetic resources, sound performances as well as the interweaving of physical and virtual matter. The group of researchers, made up of designers, architects, art historians, computer scientists and anthropologists, expanded materiality into temporal-spatial dimensions and new sensory experiences. more

Cutting | Science Communication | Brain | Sensing – Vibrations An article written by Thomas Picht, Patricia Ribault, Jürgen P. Rabe and John Nyakatura has been published in the Tagesspiegel Special on Neurology. »Cutting, separating and exposing are ancient human cultural techniques. The Cluster of Excellence project »Cutting« is investigating them on the basis of tumors in the brain and of fossils in rock. The results could change the future of neurosurgery.« Read the full article and find out more about how »Cutting« and the »Virtual Sensing Knife« can change the future of medicine! more

Object Space Agency | Stretching Materialities | Air | Climate | Cloud | More-Than-Human | Sensing – Vibrations | Stone | Textiles | Willow | XR | Performance Matter is dead? Objects are lifeless? Think again! In the exhibition »Stretching Materialities« the liveliness and activity of matter could be experienced in a completely new way. From September 16th, 2021 to March 4th, 2022, the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin became an interactive playground: an actual cloud levitated in the middle of the room, reacting to body heat and movement, hovering around the visitors like a strange creature. Stones revealed their weathering as a dynamic process of change. Large willow structures, carefully co-crafted by humans and computers, were interwoven with the inhabitable space. Korean ›durumagi‹, a silk overcoat connecting the digital and physical realm, vibrated on the visitors’ skin as they interacted with diverse materials. Walking through the room with VR headsets on, visitors could enter a glass elevator and travel straight down into the materials presented – into the CT scan of a stone or high up into the clouds to interact with air molecules. more

Brain | XR | Sensing – Vibrations Achieving a minimal level of lesion is often essential when cutting and manipulating materials. For this, we foresee an immense advance with the invention of cutting tools able to detect and distinguish materials based on their properties at the relevant scales. more

Brain | Sensing – Vibrations The effects of brain tumors on brain function are difficult to predict due to the complexity of individual brain networks and the brain's potential for functional reorganization. Invasive and noninvasive brain imaging techniques can help to better understand the effects of brain tumors on brain networks and improve treatment efficacy and levels of control. more