Thinking/Creating with Active Materials

Shape Changing Speaker

Combining electroactive polymers and thin film transparent loudspeakers.

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Through the combination of electroactive polymers and thin film transparent loudspeakers we can produce sound and modulate it through movement. The coalescence of these materials play with lightness and transparency, a stark contrast to the the heaviness and impermeability of traditional mechanical actuators a loudspeakers.

Artist in Residence: Roman Kirschner