- What: Meeting
- Where: Level 1
- When: 12 October, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
The event will be translated into English.
Matthew Gardiner - an artist and principal researcher at Ars Electronica Futurelab in Linz, specialising in origami, robotics, and more. He coined the term Oribot (折りボト), and subsequently developed ‘Oribotics’, a field of artistic and scientific research that explores the aesthetic, biomechanical, and morphological connections between nature, origami, and robotics. His works are the result of meditations on complex forms, their kinetic properties, and the electromechanical methods of activation, detection, interaction, and light display. The exhibition will feature an installation of robotic flowers, a musical instrument that generates sound through choreographed folding paths and geometric gestures, to name but a few. ‘The Geometry of the Universe’, was created as part of Gardiner’s research into fold mapping methods.
During the meeting with the artist, accompanied by a musical performance (artists: Sefa Sagir, Piotr Rościszewski), you will have the opportunity to find out about his pioneering research and work.
Exhibition partner: Ars Electronica Futurelab
Creator: Matthew Gardiner
Matthew Gardiner - one of the world’s leading experts in the field of Oribotics, which he created himself. A pioneer in combining origami, folding, and robotics.
Gardiner's works flow between digital and physical media, drifting in the space between the two. Sometimes, his experiments lead to the digitisation of material phenomena, and sometimes, the reverse – to the creation of materials and their programming.
As the head of research strategy department at Ars Electronica Futurelab, he focuses on developing expertise in trans-, multi- and interdisciplinary research methods. There is nothing more satisfying than finding a simple and clear question, one that can be explored through experiments and analysis. Nor is there anything better than a question that opens up a whole new line of research.
Matthew Gardiner is the lead researcher for the PEEK AR590 Ori*botics project, the Art and Science of Origami and Robotics.
