Marta Lyall
As an artist-technologist and researcher I work using Open Laboratory processes which cross disciplinary boundaries. I have served on the faculty of several colleges and universities including Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington where my research involved virtual world development and new forms of interface. This work led me into experimental projects involving computer science, robotics, material science, comparative history of ideas, (in science), economics, mathematics and genetics.
In 2021, I began exploring the integration of blockchain technologies with a—non-financial—interest in the immutability of the ledger itself. My focus included unique methods of virtual interface for small cross-cultural collaborations using Artificial Intelligence and physical objects. Funding for this project resulted in the creation of iO-Haptik.
My education in Chicago, involved video and film studies, experimental robotics and computing, all within the context of emerging and time-based media. As a student I worked at Fermi Lab, a particle accelerator, on a project developed by physicist Frank Merritt, from the University of Chicago. My role was to work as an electronic technician, on the building of 80 large (10 feet by 10 feet), Drift Chambers used to track quarks.
I have lectured and presented work in the U.S., Japan and Europe including Poland where I met Artist Jan Berdyszak, who changed my understanding of the relationship between language, number and physical objects. He gave me the riddle of the ancient language of Glagolitsa, and its relationship to computing. It is a riddle I am just now completing.
Contact Marta Lyall: author@io-haptik.io
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