Artist Bio
I am a physicist, engineer and multimedia artist, currently a staff researcher at the University of Chicago (James Franck Institute’s Jaeger Lab). I am interested in how patterns and behaviors self-organize in nature, and I use this knowledge in robotics and art. In my scientific research, through soft material mechanics and dynamical systems, I develop new self-organizing and adaptable robots with behaviours at the cross of materials, swarming and modular systems. In my artwork, I explore processes that highlights a connection in the emergence of natural and creative forms through live performance and installation. In Shapes of Emergence, I develop audio-visual immersive narratives, with real-time projections of visual physics experiments, where I use a robotic 5-axis camera stage that I have designed and build for the control of camera movement in live.