Ars Electronic STARTS Journeys features morphers’ life during the pandemic.

Our lab is commissioned by Ars Electronic to produce a documentary film ”Morphing Matter is ?”. The official page of the documentary: https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/morphing-matter-is/

This is the trailer of a 15-minute documentary produced for Ars Electronica STARTs Journey in 2020, when the whole festival was hosted online in response to COVID 19. The full documentary is featured here: https://ars.electronica.art/keplersgardens/en/morphing-matter-is/ Morphing Matter Lab was founded in 2017 at Carnegie Mellon University by Lining Yao. Before the pandemic, the lab referred to a specific location on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University. In 2020, however, the lab is everywhere ―at a morpher’s home, on a beach, or in the field. Morphing Matter Lab sits at the intersection of design and morphing materials. We discover morphing principles, design material architecture, invent fabrication methods, and develop computational tools for robotic morphing matter. The lab aims to turn fictional futures into the tangible present.