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SH4DOW Mikael Fock Productions Theater de VesteThe artificial intelligence “SH4D0W,” listens, speaks and improvises live on stage with an actress and the audience. Programmed to become more human, by collecting data and emotions from people, the machine goes further and further in its desire to create the perfect, human, machine…
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LC-5CB Katarina Petrović The Social HubLC-5CB is a unique experimental film that captures the microscopic changes in liquid crystals during phase transitions. Liquid crystals, found in cellular membranes and mitochondria, are essential components of life. The film specifically explores 4,4’-n-pentyl-cyano-biphenyl (commonly known as 5CB), a widely used liquid crystal in electronic displays. Originally synthesized in 1972 at the University of… View Article
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View Beneath Delft Richard Vijgen Stationshal DelftAs you descend the stairs at the station into the central hall a panoramic screen shows a subterranean view of Delft. It shows a subset of around 30.000 soil analyses from Terraindex’s enormous collection of soil data.
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YOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION Sophia Bulgakova Expo ArsenaalYOU ARE SOURCE PROJECTION AND REFLECTION (2019) is an ongoing series of projection-based setups focusing on non-linear reading in motion.
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AI Guide Toon Sping Digital LabSping Digital Lab developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tour guide for Highlight Delft 2024, an innovative art and technology festival in Delft. This AI guide, based on a large language model, aims to provide personalized responses to visitors’ questions through a chatbot. It will be a key feature of the festival, enhancing the understanding of… View Article
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Bio-haptics Roland van Dierendonck The Social HubBio-Haptics is an installation translating the human gut microbiome into touch. In an audio-haptic tour, visitors will experience the diversity of bacteria in the human guts and the link with health and wellbeing. We primarily gather information through sight, but touch serves as a medium for perception too. Haptics, defined as technology transmitting tactile information,… View Article
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Build/Behold: The Qubit TU Delft Library & QuTech The Social HubThe quantum chip, its fabrication process, and its unique architecture (soon to replace our binary understandings of computing and the internet) is a science, but it is also art. Quantum computing is also a very abstract subject, so this communication of science project also tells the story of the labs, materials, and processes used in… View Article
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Chromatically controlled hallucinations Prof. dr. Sylvia Pont, Charl Smit, Yuguang Zhao The Social HubSome well-known visual illusions work via structures of colour contrasts and colour gradients. They are designed to view on a screen or as prints on white paper under white lighting. But, the light contrasts and gradients arriving at the eye are a combination of material reflectance and lighting spectra. So, varying the lighting spectra will… View Article
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Curved Sounds Studio Mikkel The Social HubCurved Sounds is an immersive experience that sonifies Lissajous curves. It can be compared to an 8D sound system, where you not only hear the sound but also feel it moving around you. The Lissajous curves it projects are created by combining two sine waves at right angles to each other. These curves are generated… View Article
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DELIGHT – DEsigning LIGHT for real-world challenges TU Delft – Course Lighting Design Expo ArsenaalIn the lighting design elective of the faculty Industrial Design Engineering students learn to compose and elaborate a lighting plan or installation for a real-world challenge. Light is hard to design because intangible and often behaving in unexpected ways due to complicated interactions with materials and architectural structures, both in digital models and real environments…. View Article
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DELPHI IE Team 06 (David van Beelen, Birthe Hartmann, Robin Rietdijk, Álvaro Sempere Caro, Ruoqian Zhao) Theater de VesteStudents at TU-Delft Library often overlook the “Collection Wall”, despite its diverse selection of content. To increase awareness, concepts were developed for the Interactive Environments minor, including DELPHI. DELPHI is an interactive light and poetry experience. DELPHI generates personalized poems based on user-selected colors, location, time, and weather conditions. The poems aim to uplift and… View Article
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Diertgens 2024 Youth of Delft - education program by KITE Education OPEN DelftHighlight Delft and Stichting KITE have joined forces for a special project with hundreds of schoolchildren and students from Delft. This way we can reach beyond the regular visitors of our festival and give a younger generation the opportunity to immerse themselves in the world of art & technology. Sometimes it seems as if the… View Article
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Edaphon Christine Hvidt Oost-Indië PlaatsSoil is a fundamental support for all life on earth and provides the habitat for countless organisms that form a highly sophisticated ecosystem. Unamplified human sensory observations cannot capture what is going on in soil, but with artistic augmentation, this world can be unveiled. Edaphon is a sound installation exploring the living soil and relations… View Article
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EyeSeeDifferent Wellicht The Social HubIn this installation, you experience how differently we experience the world. If you stand in the same space, do you see the same thing? Perception can be described as personal awareness and as the contact individuals have with the world around them. To show the meaning of perception in a rapidly changing society and how… View Article
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Face-2-Face Architectural Facades & Products Research Group Theater de VesteThe Face-2-Face (F2F) project uses facial perception techniques developed by university partners. It analyses the facial expressions of the users, as well as the environmental sensor data (like light intensity). By doing so, you can adjust how much sunlight passes through specialized windows (switchable glazing) on the fly. This creates a space that reacts to… View Article
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Forming Folds Zeno van den Broek Theater de VesteForming Folds is an audiovisual installation focused on researching and expressing the relation between the digital realm and our spatial perception: the digital layer of visible and invisible mechanisms strongly influences our daily perception of time and space. As a result, the digital allows us to expand our perception and knowledge far beyond the human,… View Article
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House of Henri Students of the minor Spaces of Display of the TU Delft faculty of Architecture and Built Environment Huis van DelftThe House of Henri is an exhibition that takes you on a captivating journey through six distinct rooms, each inspired by Henri Baudet’s extensive collection of 1200 design items. Prof. Dr. Henri Baudet (1919-1998) held the Chair of “History of Human Product Relations” at the faculty of Industrial Design from 1965 through 1987. During this… View Article
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MEDIAtions Sonia Mangiapane The Social HubThe hybrid C-printing process merges digital and analogue techniques, starting with a digital phone photograph and incorporating traditional darkroom interventions. This innovative approach combines the precision of digital photography with the tactile qualities of analogue printing, resulting in visually compelling and nuanced final prints.
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Objective Portrait Vera van der Burg & Gijs de Boer Theater de VesteWe let a subjective algorithm give intepretations of a portrait of objects. As makers, we are often fascinated by particular objects without really knowing why. This project explores whether a differently trained object recognition algorithm can help to understand such relations. Usually, these algorithms are used to very accurately recognise whether something is a chair… View Article
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OUROBOROS Jeroen Alexander Meijer Theater de VesteA present dystopia shows us a world of disembodied humans continuously distracted by their digital devices. Within this multi-sensory installation you will find a dreamlike immersive realm, an interactive experience and a modern temple that aims to help you become aware of the mystery and movement of your attention. Attention, as a way to guide human energy… View Article
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The Personal Press Koen Weber, Neslihan Can, Sukriti Garg, Kim de Vrij Theater de VesteWords, pictures and videos define our perception of the world. This generative newspaper alters an existing news article to your worldview and style. It does so by compiling and rewriting real news articles from different newspapers from all sides of the political spectrum, covering the same topic. In essence, this is newspaper will always tell… View Article
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RGB Phantasy & LED Wormhole Nanno Simonis The Social HubWhat is a screen but the picture upon it? Nanno Simonis: “As humans, I think we often struggle to look past what something is at first sight. Seeing these intricate, colorful landscapes inside the screen creates a different relationship between us and this piece of technology through which we increasingly experience the world.” Take notice:… View Article
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Spectrum Spirale XL Studio Federico Murgia VoldersgrachtSpectrum Spirale XL is a light fountain that brings together organic and geometrical patterns into a meditative and hallucinatory installation, through illusionary phenomena as persistence of vision (the optical illusion that occurs when the visual perception of an object does not cease for some time after the rays of light proceeding from it have ceased… View Article
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Scorched Earth Filipp Groubnov Expo Arsenaal“Scorched Earth” starts with the story of the Zone Rouge area in France. A place scarred by the violence of World War I. This area, once a battleground, now bears the toxic remnants of warfare, making it uninhabitable for humans. A digital landscape portrays a wolf hunting lambs. This scene is set in the 3D… View Article
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Selective Reflections Bas Ammerlaan The Social HubSpectral tuning is a technique used to precisely control the different wavelengths of light. Spectral tuning has many applications, but one of them is that it can change the appearance of colours. Selective Reflections uses a projector and a red and blue semi-transparent textile layer to showcase the power of spectral tuning. The semi-transparent fabric… View Article
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Self Spot Marieke van der Burg OPEN DelftMarieke van den Burg: “On a sunny day, the sun created sharp shadows on the walls. In some silhouettes, I saw figures that resembled people and animals. It would be fun if these shadows could come to life! I delved into the philosophical world of shadows and quickly came across the quote from psychologist Carl… View Article
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_SUBS: Personal Companion Kiosk Eric Gu Theater de VesteWelcome to 2030, the zenith of the Subscription Era, where ownership has been replaced by the allure of disposability and convenience. In this world, the concept of renting extends beyond homes to encompass every facet of life, including appliances that track usage and charge renters accordingly, often shutting off when fees are due. Cars and… View Article
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Super Surface Lilian Kreutzberger The Social HubLilian: “In my work, I speculate about a future where we are surrounded by an entire digital physical world, where Led displays are applied to architecture, material and objects. Spatiality and material are only images or moving images on the objects. Marble can drip, existing (recognizable) forms and objects, now empty of meaning or function,… View Article
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Unseen Echoes Emergence Delft Stationshal DelftThe Emergence team about their project: ‘With our first main project, we seek to develop “Real” Augmented Reality technology. For this we are experimenting with creating a projector that has an Infrared (IR) light source.’