Material Materials

The Interactive Materials lab presented Material Materials at the 2024 Ars Electronica Campus exhibition. This exhibition dives deep into familiar physical objects and their potential for building future interactive artifacts—each questioning and expanding the notion of what is material. Overarching all the five interactive experiences, we challenge the conventional perspective and relationships between user, designer, and object—dissolving the boundaries between these roles by exposing the materiality and mechanisms underlying their operations.

With this exhibition, we hope to prompt visitors to take a second look at the things around them—not as objects with fixed meanings, but as materials that possess untapped potential for new futures that everyone can participate in defining. In turn, we seek to critically question current modes of designing and producing interactive objects, and to provoke visitors to consider their role in shaping the interactive experiences that they are a part of everyday.

This showcase would not have been possible without the generous support from the National University of Singapore, including:

CUTE Center
Smart Systems Institute
Division of Industrial Design
College of Design & Engineering

4–8 September 2024
POSTCITY, Linz, Austria

Ars Electronica Page

Curators
Clement Zheng
Ye Qian

Designers
Han Bo
Siew E Ian
Sheryl Teng
Ye Qian
Yong Zhen Zhou
Yen Ching-Chiuan
Clement Zheng
Joshua Tan Jianhao
Hannah Ang
Adam Choo
Jared Lim
Vina Setiawaty
Yu Yan Goh

Works

Flow

NECRO TROLL

PaperTouch Wonder

Pneullaboration

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