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FeltSightFeltSight
FeltSight

2025

What if you could feel your surroundings without seeing them?

Mixed Reality DesignAugmented Humans DesignHaptic DesignMore-than-Human Design

Exhibitions:

IEEE VIS 2025IEEE VR 2026CHI 2026
Cite:

Becoming Mole with "FeltSight": Hyper-sensitizing the Surrounding through Mixed Reality Haptic Proximity Gloves

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
GravFieldGravField
GravField

Live-coding Bodies

2024

How Mixed Reality Objects Shape Intercorporeal Movements?

Mixed Reality DesignGame DesignSomaesthetic DesignNew Interfaces for Musical ExpressionCollective BehaviorMovement-based Design

Exhibitions:

ICLC 2024SIGGRAPH Asia 2024NIME 2025IEEE VR 2025
Cite:

Nudging the Somas: Exploring How Live-Configured Mixed Reality Objects Shape Open-Ended Intercorporeal Movements

CHI 2026
MOFAMOFA
MOFA

Multiplayer Omnipresent Fighting Arena

2023

Can Muggles Understand What It's Like to Be a Wizard?

Research-Through-DesignExperiential FuturesMixed Reality DesignGame DesignIn-The-Wild Research

Exhibitions:

CHI 2023SIGGRAPH 2024UbiComp 2024ISMAR 2023CHI PLAY 2024
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Towards Immersive Mixed Reality Street Play: Understanding Co-located Bodily Play with See-through Head-mounted Displays in Public Spaces

CSCW 2025
Body OracleBody Oracle
Body Oracle

2024

What if our language contained characters that specifically conveyed our awareness of body language?

Speculative DesignCultural HeritageAlternative PresentSomaesthetic DesignGenerative AI Design

Exhibitions:

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025ISEA 2025CVPR 2025IJCAI 2025TEI 2025
Cite:

Body Oracle: Exploring Somatic Hieroglyphs for Collective Bodily Awareness

Ars Electronica Expanded 2025
FungiSyncFungiSync
FungiSync

Merging Cyberdelic Mixed Realities

2024

What if our realities became entangled with others' like fungi's interdependence?

Somaesthetic DesignMixed Reality DesignMore-than-Human DesignAugmented Humans Design

Exhibitions:

DevCon 2024SIGGRAPH 2025
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CybrocCybroc
Cybroc

2024

Would you choose 80 years of natural life or perhaps 100+ years of an artificialized life mechanized by protocols?

Artificial LifeTranshumanismKinetic Art

Exhibitions:

ALIFE 2025ICHEC 2024
Cite:

Cybroc: Cyborgizing Broccoli for Longevity

ISEA 2025
EchoVisionEchoVision
EchoVision

2024

What Is It Like to Be a Bat?

Mixed Reality DesignEco-PhenomenologyMore-than-Human Design

Exhibitions:

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024ISWC 2024Ars Electronica 2024AH 2025CHI 2025IEEE VR 2025IEEE VIS 2024Halfway to the Future 2024
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Becoming Bat with EchoVision: Experiencing More-than-human Perception through Mixed Reality

SIGGRAPH Asia 2024
TentacusTentacus
Tentacus

2025

How Does a Collective Mind Emerge from Distributed Tentacles that Move Together?

Somaesthetic DesignProtocol FictionMore-than-Human DesignCollective BehaviorMovement-based Design

Exhibitions:

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
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Cell SpaceCell Space
Cell Space

2024

What if you could see others’ heartbeats while dancing with them?

Intercorporeal DesignMixed Reality DesignSomaesthetic DesignBiofeedbackMovement-based Design

Exhibition:

IEEE VR 2025TEI 2025
Cite:

Cell Space: Augmented Awareness of Intercorporeality

SIGGRAPH 2024
Composable LifeComposable Life
Composable Life

2024

If an immortal AI life could live forever in cyberspace, how would it find meaning or purpose?

Artificial LifeDecentralized AIProtocol Fiction

Exhibitions:

SIGRAPH 2024 Digital Art CommunitySummer of Protocols 2024Core77 2024
Cite:

Composable Life: Speculation for Decentralized AI Life

ISEA 2025
City of SparklesCity of Sparkles
City of Sparkles

2019, 2025

How might an AI Life perceive our city?

Experiential FuturesArtificial LifeVirtual RealityUrban Data VisualizationSpeculative Design

Exhibitions:

SIGGRAPH 2019ISEA 2025IEEE VR 2025
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City of Sparkles: Embodying Cityscape of Human Memories

SIGGRAPH Asia 2025
HoloKit XHoloKit X
HoloKit X

Open-Source Mixed Reality Headset

2023

Why spend $3,500 on a HoloLens?

Product Design

Exhibitions:

DH2025UbiComp 2024
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EverForestEverForest
EverForest

2024

How does AI think about Human-AI symbiosis?

Artificial LifeProtocol FictionSpeculative DesignHuman-AI symbiosis

Exhibition:

ISEA 2025
Cite:

EverForest: A More-Than-AI Sustainability Manifesto from an On-Chain Artificial Life

HttF 2024