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  • Introduction
  • Research Context
  • Inspiration
  • Homo Viridis
  • Process
  • Discussion & Reflections
  • References
  • Mads Bering Christiansen, Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Anne-Sofie Emilie Belling
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  Through collaborative media arts practice we explore texture morphing soft robotics as an artistic medium of expression. We present an installation, Homo Viridis, that features a soft robotic interface developed to mediate signals between a vascular plant and a human body. The exposition paper discusses how Homo Viridis stages a situation of hybridity where individual, more-than-human subjectivities are mentally and physically intertwined. In conclusion, the paper reflects on how connecting organisms through soft robotic interfaces can actualize visions of a novel being - a ‘posthuman entity’. We argue that such a being might be physically composed of organic and synthetic elements that come together, but that it can also exist as a conceptual persona that may initiate discussions on what humans can become.
• Mads Bering Christiansen, Laura Beloff, Jonas Jørgensen, Anne-Sofie Emilie Belling - Soft Robotics and Posthuman Entities - 2020
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