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cati@media.mit.edu office NE18-5F Cati is French. She collected degrees from philosophy & fine arts to applied computer science, starting with a BS in mathematics and economics. Back in Paris, Cati was starting to use microcontrollers to augment interaction with everyday objects. After studying and working a few years at the MIT Media Lab (MS’02 and research associate at Media Lab Europe in Dublin from 2002-2004) she noticed that a new materiality was emerging based on our physical limitations supported by virtual possibilities. Her present work examines the interdependencies between the virtual and the physical applications and explores the fundamental differences between these worlds, and how, as the line between them blurs, she can take the lessons of the virtual space and redesign the physical space. She believes that our expectations through digital and virtual applications are changing our very conception of the physical space. A new materiality is emerging, based on our physical limitations supported by virtual possibilities. However, an incredible opportunity is being lost. Combined virtual and physical applications are not being designed with their independent principles of physical and virtual in mind. Her research explores the fundamental differences between these worlds, and how, as the line between them blurs, we can take the lessons of the virtual space and redesign the physical space. This has implications for fields as diverse as architecture, fashion and health care treatment, three areas in which she is currently developing applications. http://web.media.mit.edu/~cati/ |
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