Emotional creativity

Abstract

In collaboration with the Rapidform Print Research department at the Royal College of Art in London we developed a series of three-dimensional works. Some of the digital data was used for animations, some data was manipulated for printing and 3D sculptures. This research demonstrates an exciting moment of a new tangentiality of digital media. With this research a crossover zone was explored, where computer technology affects the material realm and where digitally driven processes interact with traditional ones describing a hybrid practice. 'InterFaced' and 'Thick Friendship' is a series of works that speak to evolutionary biology, emotions and hybridity. The work derives from a database of human faces and individual animal faces that where scanned with a 3D scanner to bring gestural and facial expressions of animals and humans to interact. The work suggests a discussion about feelings and consciousness that include animal and posthuman digital emotion.