A Third Hand – Creative Applications for Robotics
Robotic arms have long been a common sight in many industries. They are currently making a rapid entry into art and design studios and practices. Yet, at the same time, difficulties remain in accessing the workflows and work methods demanded by these machines given a clear lack of reference resources. The research project “A Third […]
Popolo AC
Popolo AC was born from a personal need of an alarm clock in order to be able to ban the smartphone from the bedroom. There is a broad palette of alarm clocks on the market, but we didn‘t find any that satisfied us in terms of alarm sound, pleasant interaction and sustainable production. Our proposition […]
OLIMPIA, 2021
A tableau consisting of the collected eyes from the people who have looked at it in the past and who look at it in the present. Olimpia is inspired by E.T.A Hoffmann’s short story The Sandman from 1816, in which the protagonist falls madly in love with the beautiful Olimpia, who turns out to be a lifelike mechanical […]
Smartphone Companions, 2018 – 2020
A design research project around the impact of smartphones on our well-being. We were looking for alternative ways of interacting with the information we consume through the smartphone. This often manifested itself in functional extensions for the phone, as objects to stimulate thought and discussion. Together with students of three different programs, we developed a […]
Sensible Data, 2015 – 2018
“Sensible Data” is an interactive installation consisting of three machines that invite to create a passport from your personal data. Take a picture of yourself and a machine will draw your portrait. Send an email and an algorithm will judge your mood, age, gender and beauty. By pressing a dubious button, you can get a […]
Luma Light
A bicycle light using empty PET bottles as casing and bicycle tubes as straps. Together with industrial designer Lukas Streit.
Smartphone Confessions, 2020
No other object of the last decades has changed our habits as much as the smartphone. The conversation around this total object has shifted from an early enthusiasm for endless possibilities to one of dependency, demanding monitoring of ‘screen-time’, and even ‘digital detox’. Smartphone Confessions is an ever-evolving collection of personal anecdotes around relationships that […]
Zippy, 2015
A Guitar Bag Guitar. A guitar bag transformed to a simple, yet functional guitar. By pulling the zippers you can play it. One Zip is for playing notes or chords, one for changing the bar and one for the vibrato. For more technical details check out the project on github.
Cactunes, 2014
A series of hypersensitive cacti. Touch them and find out how they react. The cacti were transformed to dangerous capacitive sensors by putting a needle in each cactus and connecting them to a Raspberry Pi. Thanks to the water inside the cacti, they become resistors. Be careful. Made together with the Industrial Designers Pierre Charreau […]
Wifi Oracle, 2014
Wifi Oracle is an independent device that cracks your neighbors Wifis. After the cracking is done it shows you the name of the Network and the Password on its spinning wheel. Made together with Bastien Girschig
Clapping Music
The App ‘Clapping music’ is a reinterpretation of Steve Reich’s piece with the same name. He wanted to “create a piece of music that needed no instruments beyond the human body”.
Makerspace Kornhaus
Makerspace Kornhaus was a temporary makerspace in Bern’s largest public library. Together with Jonas Probst and the Kornhausbibliotheken team, we organized a two-month course program. The offer ranged from screen printing crash courses, building hifi amplifiers to 3D printing cookie molds and a PCB design introduction course. Illustrations and graphic design by opak.cc
Wallpiano
Jugendkulturhaus Dynamo needed something to to revive the backstage of their concert venue. I installed them Wallpiano, a bunch of suspicious-looking metal profiles with wires coming out. They don’t seem to have a purpose and no explanation is given to the always changing guests of the backstage. Whether they dare to touch it or just […]
Mixed Emotions
Mixed Emotions a playful study of Amazon Rekognition’s definition of happiness and other emotions. To find out what this algorithm thinks about your emotions, you have to provide a valid face via your webcam. If the algorithm detects a face, it will be judged and added to the public database. All faces are sortable by […]
Drawing Machines
An essay about the question why that many people create drawing machines. What is fascinating about them? What questions do they pose? And how would my model look like if I built one? I talked with an expert and people who did interesting examples. Finally I built my own little machine named Hans to experience […]
Animations 2013-14
A showreel of experimental animations using various analog and digital techniques.
Easy VJing
We invited the crowd to draw their own visuals using a Graphic Tablet and Modul8. The performance was part of Le Dévaloir’s magazine release party. In Collaboration with Guillaume Cerdeira and Sebastian Vargas