Vertical Studio Lab Final Showcase: SYMPOIETICS

Vertical Studio Lab Final Showcase (DIGM 5020/6020)
Date: Thursday, April 2, 2026
Schedule
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. – Vladimir Kanic Immersive Installation
3:30 – 4:30 p.m. – Group Demo / Installations
4:30 p.m. – Performance by Jingwen Zhang
Location: DisPerSion Lab (CFA 334)

FEATURING
Ian Heyward & Gianluca Sabatini – Creatures in the Machine
Kushi Jetley – Nadi: The Body Knows
Vladimir Kanic – Photosynthetic Cyborgs
Philip Michalowski – The Follower: AI Human Co-Creation through Tactile Display
Xingbang Tang – Sonic Lenia: Living Patterns
Kesha Upadhyay – Where Gesture Becomes Sound: Drawing as an Instrument
Jingwen Zhang – Flutecoma: An Ethereal Symbiosis of Breath and Purr