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SLAP! – is an international consortium of researchers in architecture, sciences, sound and media arts engaging speculative visions in architecture and worldmaking.

SLAP! designs and constructs structures of past and future time-space objects calibrated as extensions to the human body and mind. The work articulates the shift and threshold of thinking that relates to an era that is entering a new systemic time period where knowledge and experience are organized into non-linear events. We explore and critically engage modes of experiential body/mind/space events by developing and deploying generative computational systems that form stratifying information flows by transposing scientific environmental data streams into frameworks of experiential and perceivable values.

Jean Michel Crettaz co-founder SLAP! is an architect, engineer, media artist and educator, holding multiple engineering (Switzerland) and architecture degrees (Hons, Architectural Association in London) and the US (Cooper Union in NY). He taught and directed programs at the ETH Zurich, AA London, NUS Singapore and Sciarc Los Angeles and the Zürich Schule für Gestaltung. He exhibited in London at the ICA, AA, Zurich, Frankfurt Arch. Museum, Venice Biennial and the US. He initiated and participated in media art and architecture conferences and lectures world-wide. His research focuses on systemic and symbiotic architectures through prototypal structures of living entities.

Mark-David Hosale (http://www.mdhosale.com), co-founder of SLAP!, is a media artist and composer who is an Assistant Professor in Digital Media in the Fine Arts Faculty of York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has had works exhibited and performed internationally at conferences, universities, and festivals and has given lectures and taught at institutions in Denmark, The Netherlands, Norway, Canada, UK, and the United States.
The connecting tissue of Mark-David’s interdisciplinary research and work lies in his exploration of nonlinear narrative as a representation of information, time, and space. His research and work also explores the boundaries between the virtual and the physical world. Whether as part of an installation or performance work, the virtual spaces he creates are technologically transparent, sophisticated and virtuosic, as well as intuitive to experience and use.