UChicagoScienceAsArt
"Threading Space"
By Ramarko Bhattacharya, You Li, Emilie Faracci, Harrison Dong, Ken Nakagaki, with Exhibit Support by Luke Jimenez
Submitted caption:
This photo is from an art exhibit during a conference, ACM Creativity & Cognition 2024, held in Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago. This kinetic art work, Threading Space, was developed base on AxLab's research in building and controlling mobile robot devices on everyday surfaces, but to make them control stretching threads to explore how reconfigurable physical threads could transform our future space and cognition.
While the original work of Threading Space [1], exhibited in Ars Electronica Festival, was developed to deploy the robots on floor and ceiling surfaces for full-room scale experiences, the exhibit at C&C [2] created a miniature version of this, but making the whole structure levitated in the mid-air (by placing on a transparent acrylic), which revealed a new aesthetic expression to the technology, and art work.
[1] www.axlab.cs.uchicago.edu/projects/threading-space
[2] www.axlab.cs.uchicago.edu/exhibition/threading-space-exhibit
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This image was submitted to the University of Chicago's 2025 Science as Art competition. From telescopes to trilobites, the entries display the gorgeous landscape of scientific research going on every day at the University of Chicago. More than 100 images were submitted to the contest, from undergraduates, graduate students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members.
Image may only be reprinted with credit to the authors and the University of Chicago.
"Threading Space"
By Ramarko Bhattacharya, You Li, Emilie Faracci, Harrison Dong, Ken Nakagaki, with Exhibit Support by Luke Jimenez
Submitted caption:
This photo is from an art exhibit during a conference, ACM Creativity & Cognition 2024, held in Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago. This kinetic art work, Threading Space, was developed base on AxLab's research in building and controlling mobile robot devices on everyday surfaces, but to make them control stretching threads to explore how reconfigurable physical threads could transform our future space and cognition.
While the original work of Threading Space [1], exhibited in Ars Electronica Festival, was developed to deploy the robots on floor and ceiling surfaces for full-room scale experiences, the exhibit at C&C [2] created a miniature version of this, but making the whole structure levitated in the mid-air (by placing on a transparent acrylic), which revealed a new aesthetic expression to the technology, and art work.
[1] www.axlab.cs.uchicago.edu/projects/threading-space
[2] www.axlab.cs.uchicago.edu/exhibition/threading-space-exhibit
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This image was submitted to the University of Chicago's 2025 Science as Art competition. From telescopes to trilobites, the entries display the gorgeous landscape of scientific research going on every day at the University of Chicago. More than 100 images were submitted to the contest, from undergraduates, graduate students, staff, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members.
Image may only be reprinted with credit to the authors and the University of Chicago.