The authors explore the use of slime, a non-Newtonian fluid, as a medium for creating kinetic sculptures. Inspired by a children’s workshop, the authors experimented by creating forms with slime bubbles. They describe how they utilized the science behind the material to craft sculptures and how the interactions of bubbles create sculptural bodies and lifelike movements. The article further introduces the mechanism behind the creation, which led to several methods for creating slime sculptures. Through exhibitions in Taiwan and at the Ars Electronica Festival, the authors share insights into audience reactions and how these sculptures elicit visual, auditory, and tactile experiences.

This statement presents an innovative creative process for designing ceramic vessels. The authors detail how three disparate concepts—mobile device-driven creativity, digitally designed and fabricated ceramics, and multisensor data fusion—are unified and applied to an emerging practice in which sensor data are used to generate vessel designs via a prototype smartphone app. In a pilot study users in a variety of locations tested the app, and their designs were 3D printed, with location becoming a tangible parameter. Results show the feasibility of using data fusion, mobile devices and digital fabrication to create physical, location-specific artifacts. Broad implications and potential ways forward are then discussed.