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Retro-fitting
Yığın (Leftover)
The Alphabet Song
Plotted Leftovers
Knitting
Human Knitting Installation II
CNC Knitting Installation
Human Knitting Installation I
Finger Knitting
Fabric Computing
Robotics
3DGS + Robotics
Verdant Urban
Overprinting
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Cavity Slab
3DGS Slab
Hybrid Computing
Light Leak
Omnifab
Precise Fit
ML as an Instrument
Unrehearsed Compositions
Computational Narratives
Involuntary Shifts
Homage to Erwin Hauer
Sound Installation #1
ZAP!
Machine perception
Counteralgorithms II
Counteralgorithms I
Movement on film
Sequences
Perceived Space
Exhibition Design
Architecture is Art
Space-making
The Interface
Intrastructure
Regenerating a Flux
ULUSKULTUR
Common Ground
MNMTI
2024 - 2025 Fall
FEAST: Faculty Engineering/Arts Student Teams @ University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Arts Engine SMART Lab: Sound Media Art Lab
Artists & Lab:
SMART (Sound and Media Art) Lab
Director: Dr. Zeynep Özcan
SMART (Sound and Media Art) Lab Student Members:
İlkyaz Sarımehmetoğlu (Architecture, MS)
Shoma Sawa, (Computer Science, MA)
Sabrina Sugg Environment (BS & MS)
Brooke Steele Fine Arts (BA)
Natalia Quintanilla Cabrera (Performing Arts Technology, MA)
Thank you!
Zeke Bolukh
Eva Choi
Carly Lowe
Paul Luckhoff
Emma Reich
Lucas Yan
Ginny Jiang
smart lab website
ZAP! is an interactive biomimetic installation that reimagines how electric eels (Electrophorus electricus) live, hunt, and communicate by creating electromagnetic fields (EMF) around their bodies, serving as an extended sense of touch. This work conceptualizes the physical, auditory, and communicative aspects of electrocommunication and brings them to life in an interactive large-scale multimedia installation. The installation showcases a real-time simulation of the eel’s behavior within varying environmental conditions of the Amazonian habitat. It composes this immersive environment through three spatial layers: the architectural sculpture, the live-generated sound engine, and spectator interactions that interfere with the autonomous artificial environment.