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  • PROJECTS
  • Participation
  • Publications
  • SMALLER WORKS
  • personify
  • ARCHIVE

100 Days of Balloons

2023-2024

Video & performance series

The Language of Touch

2017 - Ongoing

Exploring how language has the capability to dictate touch-based experiences & understanding how touch has permeated our language.

Being in Touch: The Absurdity of Having a Body

2023

Video & performance series

100 Ways of Connection

2024-Ongoing

Film & performance series

The Skin

2017-2018

Music video & performance

Shot, performed and edited by Ari & Zoe Elefterin.

Some shooting support in Puerto Rico from Sam Kweskin & Hernán Ayala Tirado.

Skin: Dissected

2017-2018

Film, material experimentation, objects

Shot, performed and edited by Ari & Zoe Elefterin.

Some shooting support in Puerto Rico from Sam Kweskin & Hernán Ayala Tirado.

Tasting Touch: An Experiment

2016/2017

A prosthetic for tasting touch and touching taste - expanding the sensory capabilities between two bodies.

Whitewater Exercises

2017/2019 

Plugged

2017 / 2019

well

2016

Problem-solving drinking system for confronting the disappearance of clean drinking water.

Cape Wind: Speculations

2017/2019

Collaboration with Lisa Marks

A speculative kite series exploring possible forms for “naturally-behaving” wind turbines - In response to community pushback for a now-defunct Cape Cod offshore wind farm.

This Land's Water: A Survey of Water in Puerto Rico

2019 (Ongoing)

Photographs/Film made in collaboration with: Sam Kweskin

100 Ways of Sitting

2016 - Ongoing

Visualizing the Interface

2016 

Mojave Desert Water Scarves

2017 - 2019

Sensory artifacts from artist and ranger-led conservation tours.

Touch Starved

2017

Presented at Industrial Design Society of America's International Conference in Atlanta, GA -August 2017

Tools for Navigating Our Innate Human Needs in the Modern Workplace

For specific project breakdowns:
Being in Touch: Workshops
SAT: Serious Attention to Touch

 

melt

2015

Flatware for embodying the physical effects of climate change.

Being In Touch Workshops

2017

Presented at the Industrial Design Society of America's International Conference in Atlanta, GA - August 2017

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Services: Workshop Creation + Performative Experience Design + Industrial Design Consultation

SAT: Serious Attention to Touch

2017

Seating device for facilitating consensual touch through free play, and the re-organization of the sensory experience.

Visualizing the Interface: Exercises

2016

Excerpts from "Visualizing the Interface," a collection of writings and exercises from my time spent in the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. 

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The Nation of Tactile Empathy

2016/2017

Done as a member of Tony Dunne & Fiona Raby’s Designed Futures Lab.

Embodying Bamboo

2016

Writings and exercises on finding material truth in industrial design processes.

100 Days of Balloons

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The Language of Touch

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Being in Touch: The Absurdity of Having a Body

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100 Ways of Connection

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The Skin

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Skin: Dissected

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Tasting Touch: An Experiment

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Whitewater Exercises

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Plugged

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Cape Wind: Speculations

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This Land's Water: A Survey of Water in Puerto Rico

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100 Ways of Sitting

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Visualizing the Interface

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Mojave Desert Water Scarves

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Touch Starved

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melt

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Visualizing the Interface: Exercises

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The Nation of Tactile Empathy

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Embodying Bamboo

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All Images & Content Copyright of Ari Elefterin for Infinity