Award
Artist of the Science Year 2018, German Federal Ministry for Education and Research and Wissenschaft im Dialog (DE)
Amygdala MK3 is a robotic-appendage, autonomous of user control. By augmenting its own body through the uniquely human practice of skin cutting, the appendage performs body alteration on itself. During a month-long exhibition, Amygdala carefully cut and sculpted its own skin, bearing unique and specific scars caused by the operations of an AI. The skin was then stored as analog data of robotic body modifications and patterns (Calyx work series, 2019).
Done in collaboration with Marco Donnarumma, Professor Alberto de Campo (Computational Art / University of the Arts Berlin), the scientists and engineers from Neurorobotics Research Laboratory in Berlin, and the interdisciplinary research lab Baltan in the Netherlands
Amygdala is the result of several iterations spanning 3 years of research.