Touchy Feely Algae

May 31, 2025 @ 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM GMT+1 , Room 3 Add to Calendar

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Material Kitchen is an initiative and resource for sustainable materials, housed at ITP/IMA (Interactive Telecommunications Program / Interactive Media Arts) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Material Kitchen started in 2023, by Yeseul Song and Priyanka Makin, recognizing the urgent need to research and adopt sustainable materials for prototyping and making physical computing and fabrication projects.

Further info on Material Kitchen can be found here : https://itp.nyu.edu/courses/material/

Come join to be a part of Material Kitchen’s research on discovering and unpacking the tactile potential of plant-based biomaterials! Material Kitchen is an initiative and resource for sustainable materials for physical computing and digital fabrication, initially born at ITP (Interactive Telecommunications Program) at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. In this workshop, we invite you to play with conductive biomaterials based on agar agar samples to ask questions, explore ideas and applications. We will build a capacitive sensing circuit together that will turn the biomaterial into a sensitive surface that can sense your touch and presence. We will also share our material recipes that you can try at your own time.

Priyanka Makin

Priyanka Makin is a computer engineer and multidisciplinary artist whose work explores themes of identity and nature through motors, materials, and humor. She's a SparkFun Electronics alum, graduate of the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, and a 2025 Open Hardware Summit Fellow.

Yeseul Song

Yeseul Song is an artist who makes non-visual interactive experiences and playful installations enhanced by technology, which redefines the relationship between art and participants. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at New York University Tisch's Interactive Telecommunications Program & Interactive Media Arts (NYU ITP/IMA).