In the project "Virtual Sensing Knife & Haptic Hanbok”, a team of design anthropologists, Yoonha Kim and Maxime Le Calvé, worked with sound designer Nico Espinoza, creative coders Itaru Yatsuda and Vanta. Together, we produced a virtual reality simulation of Mohammed Fardin Gholami and Jürgen Rabe’s vision of a knife that senses and cuts at the level of the cell. This project proceeded as an inventive and iterative ’sounding‘ of the potential interactions between atomic force microscopy, design, and neurosurgery. Striking that unusual and dissonant chord, we explored techno-poetic paths to relate to the more-and-less-human status of neuronal tissues. We brought the visitor into a tinkered techno fantasy which brings into collision the technoscience worlds of physics and medicine. The making process went its way through a lot of probing and sounding, and cheerful attempts at communicating ideas and practices across technologies and scientific paradigms.
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