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The IDM/ONX FLESH FEEDBACK speaker series continues, as we're joined by Kyle Machulis, one of the world's leading experts on technologies of haptic intmacy.
Wrong Hole: Building a Platform for Haptic Intimacy via a Series of Mistakes
Buttplug.io, an open source software framework for adding Intimate Haptics to games & applications, has existed for 8 years at this point, now supporting over 600 pieces of hardware & installed on 10s of thousands of devices. Even with those numbers, how does one judge the success of a technology when the goal is efficacy of development of intimate communication, instead of simple product sales? This talk will cover how the Buttplug & Intiface projects were initiated & have grown/survived over the years, via a series of experiments, guesses, & misfires, & what we've learn from a community dedicated to exploring haptics & sticking with us despite the several wrong turns in design & abstract, complicated goals of its lead developers.
Bio: Kyle Machulis is a principal software/hardware engineer with over 25 years of experience in the tech industry at companies such as Microsoft, Mozilla, & Linden Lab. He currently leads the Buttplug.io open source software project, providing cross-platform development support for a variety of intimate haptics devices. As an artist, Kyle has shown in digital exhibitions & participated in residencies around the world, including the Museumsquartier in Vienna, Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, & Autodesk Pier 9 Prototyping Labs in San Francisco, CA. He has published as an independent scholar on topics of Haptics, Proxemics, & Virtual Identity/Embodiment. He is also very tired.
Event specifics: RSVP required for non-NYU guest through Eventbrite. Every visitor must be registered & provide a unique non-NYU email address. On the day of the event you will receive an email pass, bring identification & the pass (you do not need to print it out) for security.
About the Fall 24 Speaker Series: FLESH FEEDBACK: DESIGNING WEARABLE SENSATIONS
With the ubiquitous adoption & domestication of wearable devices that continually feed us streams & bursts of data relayed through touch, we've already become acclimated to practices of remote haptic sensing, knowing, communicating, & socializing. An emerging generation of wearables, with varying degrees of success, attempt to route more complex, engaging, & affectively compelling forms of touch through these contacts opened up between flesh & technology. At the same time, these new material intimacies with data expose us to a range of vulnerabilities, as our bodies can be monitored & remotely stimulated, often without our consent. Often ideated as our most ancient' sense-or alternatively as a neglected' sense-touch takes center stage in this year's IDM X Onassis speaker series, as a compelling mix of artists, designers, industry professionals, & academics each take up questions about our changing embodied relationships with digital technologies.
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