Residency at CYENS in Nicosia, Cyprus.
[2022]

In October and November 2022 I was artist in residence at the Thinker Makerspace of CYENS – Center of Excellence in Nicosia, Cyprus. My ambition for the residency was to explore how to involve the public even more intensively in my installations by using data from the visitors as movement input.

During my stay I presented some prototypes at the WIP Festival. THe WIP Festival was titled Brave New Humanity and presented an art & technology exhibition program. These prototypes called ‘Lotus’ and ‘Meander’ use proximity sensors to respond to the presence of movement or lack thereof.

PROTOTYPE LOTUS_ Resin 3D printed base with perspex ‘arms’. Servo motor, HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor, Arduino Uno

PROTOTYPE MEANDER, PAPER EXPERIMENTS_ Wooden encasing with lasercutted paper patterns created with Grasshopper in Rhinoceros. NEMA17 stepper motor, TB6600 Stappen driver, HCSR04 Ultrasonic Distance Sensor, Arduino Uno

I wrapped up the residency with an Artist Talk and Showcase titled ‘On the Process of Making.’ And a presentation of ‘The Garden’ at the closing party of the WIP festival. The Garden is a spacial test of the ‘Lotus’ prototype. Visitors could wander around and interact with the individual specimens that resided in ‘The Garden’.