Mads Hobye

Mads Hobye (1980), PhD, is an associate professor at Roskilde University (DK) within the Department of People and Technology. He researches interactive digital materiality as a hybrid between physical material and digital technology. It is research in the potential of aesthetic use of technology and how to democratise technology ownership through frameworks, open knowledge-sharing and digital fabrication as a maker mindset. The work has been published internationally and applied in practice through co-founding illutron (a collaborative, interactive art collective in CPH) and as artworks presented at international museums, galleries, and festivals.

His interest is the relationship between physical digital technology and human beings. Through computational logic, sensors, and expressions, the technology resonates with participants, both in their relation to the work itself and just as much in the interpersonal experiences among themselves – in the situated context.

In 2007, he co-founded Illutron, which resides on a large-scale industrial barge in Copenhagen Harbour. Its purpose is to hold space for artists to work with technology, biology, and scrap materials in an artistic manner, free from larger commercial pressures. The collective is run as a non-profit organisation governed by its active members.

https://www.hobye.dk/