Joelle Bitton & Matt Tytel
Joelle Bitton
http://joelle.superficiel.org/
Joelle is an artist, designer and HCI researcher, currently enrolled as a DDes candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. For her presentation, 'Living in the Material World', she has this to say. 'I look at personal data and digital fabrication and I see creative opportunities arising. I’m proposing to use human-based data as parameters for CNC-machining. Twipology and Rabota are two recent projects that suggest that digital fabrication can be unprecise, slow, non-linear but... on purpose. Overall, the point is to establish a daily relationship with technology that is intimate and disruptive at the same time.'
Matthew Tytel
Matt is a music and virtual reality software developer. He is a former Leap Motion employee where he created interactive physics toys ranging from centipedes, to pluckable flowers. In his presentation titled 'Playful Physics Toys - in 3D!', Matt will go through the long term process of developing interactive physical objects that started with simple blocks and ended with constructing dance robots.