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Animation, Craft and Robotics
Graphic Design Across Multiple Mediums
Speakers
In his talk, globally renowned Swiss designer, Felix Pfäffli, will present his creative work, which deals with a wide variety of media. As a graphic designer, his work traverses time, space and interactivity; how the creative process works and how ideas come about in the first place; most importantly, how he can focus specifically on nothing in particular. The talk will be preceded by an introduction by Indian artist, Aparna Rao, about her collaboration with Felix Pfaffli.
Speakers
Felix Pfäffli
Felix Pfäffli is the founder of Studio Feixen. Since 2011 he has been teaching poster design, generative design and campaign design at the «Fachklasse Grafik» in Lucerne Switzerland. During his career he has worked in many design fields like graphic design, typography, animation, fashion design and interior design. His customers include companies such as Apple, Google, Samsung and Nike as well as small local cultural institutions. He is the youngest member in the history of AGI and gave lectures, organized exhibitions, workshops and won prizes worldwide.
Aparna Rao
Aparna Rao is the Director & Artist in Residence at the Robotics Aesthetics & Usability Center, ETHZ. She is the Project Leader & Artist in Residence at Pors & Rao PATHOS Lab, Wyss Zurich, ETHZ. She held a TED Senior Fellowship from 2011 to 2013 and holds a MA (Distinction) from the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea.
Pors & Rao (artists Aparna Rao, India and Søren Pors Denmark) since 2002, work with objects and installations often incorporating physical animation and responsive behaviors. After toiling with computer simulations, the internet, and gameplay in the early 2000s, they both abandoned the screen to work with objects that engage the body. In 2004, they established their studio in Bangalore, India and began a number of institutional collaborations worldwide. In 2020, they founded the Robotics Aesthetics & Usability Center at ETHZ, a 2 year pilot to open all the animatronic tools extracted from their artwork and freely share with Swiss art and design institutions and professionals.
