Animaspace

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Angelina Kozhevnikova is an Interdiscilpinary Artist and Researcher and is the Founder and Director of Animaspace, a Rotterdam-based studio exploring human-machine-environment communication, collaboration and co-design. She is also currently a Researcher on human-machine collaboration in construction at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture. Being simultaneously an artist and a female scientist at the forefront of technology, she offers a unique and sometimes radical perspective on our relationship with machines and the environment. Her projects challenge technology's role by offering open-ended and collaborative scenarios to imagine alternative possible applications and modes of relation to emerging technologies. Communicating these ideas with the help of mixed media (film, prototypes, interactive installations and performances), her artistic practice becomes an experimental field research lab in a constant transition.

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    • Studio Animaspace - Compilation projects 2019-2024
    I/Another - I/Another is an interdisciplinary art project that aims to create an interactive installation and develop possible algorithms to enable human-machine conversation in a kinaesthetic and spatial manner. We research the most exciting ways to enable human-machine kinaesthetic conversation, in which humans (I) and a robotic installation (Another) can converse or communicate using physical movements, gestures, and sensory experiences as opposed to traditional verbal or visual methods. The public engagement and input from different communities will further enrich our understanding, cultivating an inclusive and diverse approach towards creating cutting-edge technologies and disrupting the bubble of the self-referencing art scene.
    Coordinated - A FRAMEWORK OF A MOVING DECENTRALIZED PROTEST, COMMUNICATING THE LOCATIONS WITH AUT ONOMOUS FLYING AGENTS – DRONES - IN AN ENCODED WAY. COORDINATED° proposes a framework of a moving decentralized protest, communicating the locations with autonomous flying agents – drones - in an encoded way. Pretending to be just an entertaining performance, drones are transmitting a hidden message - coordinates of the next location - that could be read with the help of AR. Since a lot of infrastructures to capture people by police are being prepared overnight, the moving protest could lower the chance of being arrested, the use of drones will make it harder to create lawsuits against organizers and the decoding mechanism based on AR increase the time for police to understand the next location and move their infrastructure in a top-down way, which is always slower than bottom-up self-organization of the protesters. The artwork is trying to shift the way we perceive technology. While a lot of machines are being used for war, oppression, and surveillance, could other machines help to organize the resistance? It is time to engage in a critical conversation about the distributed networks connecting humans and non-humans symbiotically to stand for freedom and against oppression in a bottom-up way.
    Coordinated - A FRAMEWORK OF A MOVING DECENTRALISED PROTEST, COMMUNICATING THE LOCATIONS WITH AUT ONOMOUS FLYING AGENTS – DRONES - IN AN ENCODED WAY. COORDINATED° proposes a framework of a moving decentralised protest, communicating the locations with autonomous flying agents – drones - in an encoded way. Pretending to be just an entertaining performance, drones are transmitting a hidden message - coordinates of the next location - that could be read with the help of AR. Since a lot of infrastructures to capture people by police are being prepared overnight, the moving protest could lower the chance of being arrested, the use of drones will make it harder to create lawsuits against organisers and the decoding mechanism based on AR increase the time for police to understand the next location and move their infrastructure in a top-down way, which is always slower than bottom-up self-organisation of the protesters. The artwork is trying to shift the way we perceive technology. While a lot of machines are being used for war, oppression, and surveillance, could other machines help to organize the resistance? It is time to engage in a critical conversation about the distributed networks connecting humans and non-humans symbiotically to stand for freedom and against oppression in a bottom-up way.
    [skin] - WEARABLE DEVICE THAT EXTENDS COMMUNICATION ABILITIES BEYOND LANGUAGE. [Skin] is a wearable device that extends communication abilities beyond language. It extends the skin's sensory faculties in order to exchange through touch. Using a soft actuation system and computer recognition, the devices are able to exchange physical media between them and their users based on their location and intents. Outside pattern, manipulated by the inflation, communicates with other costumes. Other costumes understand the message by reading the pattern using computer vision. Inner pattern transmits the message to the human who wears it. The dots are distributed in relationship with the sensitivity of areas of the body.
    Robots4Commons - COLLABORATIVE TOWERS. Towers built by children from Kapla blocks during Robot4Commons workshop. The bottom part: created with children through participatory algorithms, assembled by the robot. The top part: assembled by the children manually.
    Radical Gravity - GLOBAL SYSTEM THAT PROVIDES SELF - BUILT AIRDROP SHELTERS AFTER NATURAL DISASTERS. Natural disasters are an urgent problem on a global scale. Their number is increasing due to varied reasons – most prominently climate change – leaving millions of people without a home. Radical Gravity attempts to design an efficient global system of a fast and strategic response that accommodates these people in shelters, while creating environment-friendly and sustainable shelter settlements with respect to human well-being. Following natural disasters, land infrastructure is often compromised. We therefore propose using the high-altitude airdrop method for emergency shelters deployment. Instead of limiting the stage air dropping to the delivery of standard shelters, we consider this as a self-building or self-construction stage that distributes ready-to-use emergency shelter settlements to the ones affected. The research searches for more passive strategies of control, such as maneuvering the flight using air resistance through changes in the drag distribution during the aggregation level. The aggregation flight results in new architectural morphologies that differ depending on environmental and site-specific parameters. These shelter settlements consist of inflated units that are self-sustainable and adaptive to population needs. Using passive strategies of harvesting water, managing energy transitions, and controlling the microclimate, the project aims for a circular model of operation and intelligent ecological thinking.
    Circular Wood for the Neighnorhood - GENERATIVE CO-DESIGN STRATEGIES FOR DESIGN WITH WASTE WOOD AND END-USERS. Shifting the perception of circular wood as a simply harvested stream towards a material with unique properties of its own right. The complexity of the material is suggested to be tackled by switching from the object-oriented design towards designing soft systems that are material-driven. Through 2 case studies (Furniture design: coffee table / Pavillions design: community structure) we prototyped and tested different algorithmic frameworks consisted of uneven material stream input (waste wood), potential end-user inputs (co-design and assembly strategies for community cohesion), and production inputs (ways of materialising these designs with robotic production).
    Plastercast - THE CO-DESIGN BETWEEN SOFT GEOMETRY AND PHASE CHANGING MATERIAL. Through a series of experiments, the project explores the relationship between soft geometry - fabric and phase changing material - plaster. Stitching patterning is the technique to co-design and shape the flow of the material, and gravity is an essential participant in the framework.
    Experimentars - 3Dprinted/3Ddrawn portraits. We were tired of seeing the same mass-produced things with no personality everywhere. That got us thinking: what if every object in your life could be tailor-made just for you? What if your home reflects who you are while being kind to the planet? We kicked off Experimentars to challenge the mass production process and create more ecological relationships with consuming and making.