Hyperbody's METABODY team exhibits 1:1 real-time interactive installations at the METATOPIA public event taking place 14th - 25th July at Media Lab Prado, Madrid, Spain

The Metatopia event is a public and press event of the INTERNATIONAL METABODY FORUM 2015; European project METABODY.

Metatopia is a metaopera, metaformance, and metagaming platform, a laboratory of perception, embodiment and space that extends in a series of installations / dis-concerts / performances / metaformances / urban interventions and home performances. Metatopia is the architectural, kinetic and perceptual laboratory of the Metabody agents (also called mutant bitches 2.0) who develop dynamic, intra-active spaces, illegible behaviors and unquantifiable affects that exceed reduction to data. Metabody agents are affect-hackers and perception hackers that operate in the ontological substrata of power and control. The 3rd IMF 2015 in Madrid will present an ensemble of performances, installations, (dis-)conerts and metaformances under the name METATOPIA, a metaopera and metagaming platform that will disseminate actions in the urban space while having its main site in the auditorium of Medialab Prado, where it will offer a transformative and intimate experience to the audience across a series of 15 installations-performances, preceded by 9 days of open production process, the Metamedialab.

Hyperbody's METABODY team shall exhibit pro-active architectural robotics driven 1:1 scale interactive installations within this context. The installation pieces have been developed within the MSc2, Spring Studio: IAE (Inter-activating Environments) of Hyperbody. The studio explores, hacks, and generates novel interactive Architecture projects as a strategic medium to enhance non-verbal communication. An inter-disciplinary initiative, the studio under the guidance of the METABODY team operates on a creative blend of Interaction design, new media, embedded sensing, actuation and control systems, programming, robotics and spatial thinking.

Program:

14th - 17th July
Production workshop
Inter-disciplinary collaborations to enrich and experiment with prototypes.

22nd July
16:30 onward
METATOPIA Exhibition and Performance
Public presentation and Interview with the Spanish Press

23rd - 25th July
16:30 - 17:30
METATOPIA Guided Public Exhibition and Performance

17:30 - 20:30
METATOPIA Public Exhibition and Performance

Coordinator: Dr. Nimish Biloria

Studio tutors: Dr. Nimish Biloria, Jia Rey Chang, Veronika Laszlo, Pablo Baquero

Students: Calcen Chan, Kubra Yilmaz, Leslie Che, Marek Nosek, Bob Heester, Dimitra Drtsa, Esther Slagter, Marien Teeuw, Alessandro Giacomelli, Yizhe Guo, Xianting Meng, Giulio Mariano, Anisa Nachett

Sponsors: TU Delft, Hyperbody, TU Delft Robotics institute, Ecoboard, Fabrikoos, Contender sail cloth, Smart Textile collaboration: University of Boras, Sweden