Projects

Here you can find a selection of projects I have worked on. You can find a lot more on my blog

A Flock of Birds

A Flock of Birds is an art exhibit, which explores the coupling of sensing, actuation, and interaction in a folded paper substrate.

When folding paper, the act of folding is the input. The fold acts as the algorithm it computes the output, translating it from the input. Finally we have the final shape, which is the output of the interaction.

The origami dove, which can flap its wings by pulling its tail is an example of a more complex folding interaction. We use a flock of these origami doves and two speacial "leaders". By pulling the leaders tails, the wings of the leaders flap and in addition the flock will react and copy the leaders movement.

This art pieace was the result of the COCA201 (Computing & Create Arts) course at Queens University. During this course we explored various ways of actuating paper. An alternate method and possible future direction for taking the birds are shape memory alloys
A Flock of Birds was excibited at TEI2012

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Justice as Desert

I was confronted with a model created by Shelly Kagan, who is the one of the lead philosophers concerning distributive justice and justice as desert (yes, there actually are a bunch of people concerned with the issue :-)...). I consider his model flawed in many ways and his interpretation of justice as desert questionable as well as impractical. Together with my friend Frederike Kaltheuner we created a new model, which we published in the Maastricht Journal of liberal arts.

We where also quite pleased that Shelly Kagan took the time to personally react and congratulate us to the model. He stated that, while he disagrees with our approach and still stands by his, he was still impressed by the strength and clarity of our argument :-)

Since 2010 our paper is required reading for the course "Modeling Nature" at UCM.

Read our paper here

DisplayPointers

This is an interactive system that explores how to use display devices as pointing devices. Imagine pointing at an icon and instead of the application opening on the main display the application I will open on the pointing device. Imagine using your phone as a lens to zoom in on certain features of a map. To get a better understanding of what is possible, please take a look at the video.

I introduce a simple hardware setup for enabling these interactions in addition to a series of demo-apps.

(click here for video)

DisplayPointers was exhibited at TEI2012

Reapropreated Bicycle

This was originally inspired by many visits to the Landbouwbelang. The Landbouwbelang is a former squat turned cultural center. In it one finds various industrial art pieces as well as DemoTech a lab which researches into sustainable technology.