Soft Encounters is an experimental project and installation that combines the design and fabrication of soft-moving sculptures like soft robots made from flexible silicone. The project focuses on materiality and on the investigation of shapeshifting physical boundaries of soft materials through inflation and deflation and the possibility of human-robot encounters. Soft robots can exercise their social, ecological and vital agency by shapeshifting their physical boundaries to respond to touch, movement, or other external stimuli.

Marisa Satsia, born in 1990 in Nicosia, Cyprus, is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher specialising in medical and biological arts, focusing on Bioart and Biodesign. Based in Nicosia, she maintains an art studio that functions as a hybrid space, combining her artistic vision with a DIY laboratory for experimental research. In her work, she embraces experimentation, non-conformity, and risk-taking, pushing the boundaries between biology, technology, and art and design. Her research interests range from molecular gastronomy to soft robotics and DIY Biology.

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Mehka srečanja so eksperimentalni projekt, instalacija, ki združuje oblikovanje in izdelavo mehko premikajočih se skulptur, kot so mehki roboti, izdelani iz fleksibilnega silikona. Projekt se osredotoča na materialnost in raziskovanje spreminjanja oblike fizičnih meja mehkih materialov z napihovanjem in deflacijo ter na možnost srečanj človeka in robota. Mehki roboti lahko izvajajo svojo družbeno, ekološko in vitalno vlogo tako, da spreminjajo svoje fizične meje, odzivajo se na dotik, gibanje in druge zunanje dražljaje.

Marisa Satsia, rojena leta 1990 v Nikoziji na Cipru, je multidisciplinarna umetnica in raziskovalka. Ukvarja se z medicinskimi in biološkimi umetnostmi, s poudarkom na bioumetnosti in biodizajnu. V Nikoziji na Cipru vodi umetniški studio, ki deluje kot hibridni prostor, v njem združuje svojo umetniško vizijo z naredi-sam laboratorijem za eksperimentalne raziskave. V svojem delu daje prednost eksperimentiranju, nekonformnosti in tveganju, saj premika meje med biologijo, tehnologijo, umetnostjo in oblikovanjem. Njeni raziskovalni interesi segajo od molekularne gastronomije do mehke robotike in naredi-sam biologije.