Anima IV

In a partnership with Workshop 4.0 from Valais, the studio is exploring the visual and emotional potential witnessed in a robotic arm. Taking a functional and industrial tool, the design duo are connecting it to the realm of design and art by using it to elicit a variety of emotional reactions from viewers through elements of surprise, amusement, apprehension, and joy. The project, which is possible thanks to the democratisation of such technology as the KUKA robotic arm, hopes to redefine our relationship to new technology through a poetic and sensitive format. Enveloped in a paper structure, the installation explores a new perspective on the interaction between the robot and the material and its response to air resistance.

Biography

Based between France and Switzerland, CLAIRE + LÉA is a design studio exploring the crossover between digital and physical worlds. Responding to the digital age through the objects it creates, the studio’s interdisciplinary approach results in intriguing narratives conceived by its founders, Claire Pondard and Léa Pereyre.