Jürg Lehni: Robotic gestures, choreographed drawings and poetic machines
Jürg is a designer, artist, engineer and, above all, an entertaining person. And he has a witty way of connecting it all.
Jürg is a designer, artist, engineer and, above all, an entertaining person. And he has a witty way of connecting it all.
We started TYPO Berlin 2015 with the 42. Creative Mornings talk. This month’s speaker was Prof. Manfred Hild, who is Professor of Digital Systems at the Beuth University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. He presented his work on the humanoid robot Myon.
Am Rande der TYPO veranstalten wir unseren 42. CreativeMorning (Donnerstag, 21. Mai, 9 Uhr). Mit über 300 Teilnehmern wird es der bisher größte.
/// As a TYPO sidebar, we’re mounting our 42nd Creative Morning (Thursday, May 21, 9 a.m.). With more than 300 participants, it will be our biggest yet.
Professor Dr. Manfred Hild ist Leiter des Forschungslabors Neurorobotik an der Beuth Hochschule für Technik Berlin. In unserem kurzen Interview stellt er uns den Roboter Myon vor, der im Mai auf der TYPO auftreten wird.
Gesche Joost from the research lab at Universität der Künste Berlin starts with the image of an interactive quilt that uses visual hints of interactive threat connected to an interface to tell stories. The stories change by folding the fabric in different shapes to create different patterns. In all her projects a group of researchers from different disciplines and expertise work together. The aim is to integrate interfaces that connect and feed back into society to improve it.
Lehni’s work is an intersection of computer science, art, and engineering. He is interested in gestures of production and process. He self taught himself programming at a young age, and is interested in using programming to give things behavior and develop intuition while still maintaining control.
Joachim Sauter co-founded Art+Com in the mid eighties in Berlin. The company evolved from an interdisciplinary group of designers, architects and artists from the Berlin University of the Arts as well as hackers from the ChaosComputerClub. The group used the upcoming digital technology not only as a tool, but potential (mass) medium. Founded as an non-profit organisation to explore the new medium’s possibilities for art, design, science and technology, Art+Com did not commence commercial projects not before the mid 1990s.
Just two months to go until TYPO London kicks off! We would like to use the remaining time to introduce the speakers and their work. We sent all TYPO London 2011 speakers a questionnaire and got a whole bunch of interesting and charming feedback. Let’s start with… Joachim Sauter.