Synthetic Nature is a speculative exhibition exploring the blurred boundary between biology and technology. Featuring AI generated ecosystems, hybrid organisms, and biointegrated systems, it redefines nature as something designed and programmed. The visual identity blends organic forms with digital patterns, reflecting how machines now shape evolution. Through interactive installations and digital forensics, the show invites viewers to rethink life, intelligence, and ecology in a world where nature is no longer natural.
Living Letters is an interactive installation that explores the connection between humans and synthetic environments. Inspired by ecology, it uses sensors, cameras, and generative typography to create a system that breathes, grows, and resets in response to touch, motion, and presence.
Here, letters act less like symbols and more like living organisms, reactive, fragile, and aware. The goal is not control, but coexistence. In this space, interaction becomes dialogue, and nature is reimagined through code.
Living Letters is built with Processing, computer vision, and color detection, creating a responsive typography system that reacts to human presence and touch.
Step 1 – Activation A webcam detects proximity. As users approach, the letters begin to “breathe,” expanding based on their distance and energy.
Step 2 – Evolution When users touch physical materials under a second camera, the system detects color shifts. If the match drops, the letters grow, stretching outward in response to that touch. Step 3 – Reset After 2–3 seconds of no interaction, the system resets, and the letters return to their original form, ready to respond again.
This closed loop system mimics natural rhythms of tension and release, growth and decay, transforming text into a living structure. Rather than direct control, the audience enters a soft feedback loop, co-existing with language as it shifts, breathes, and remembers.
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Instructor: Brad Bartlett , Zeke Wattles, Ivan Cruz Software: P5js, Cavalry, Cinema 4D, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, After Effects
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