TEDx 2011 Daan Roosegaarde: Using technology for poetry 

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Artist Daan Roosegaarde studied at the Academy of Fine Arts AKI in Enschede and received a Master at the Berlage Institute, a Postgraduate Architecture in Rotterdam. Currently he is the Creative Director of Studio Roosegaarde, an artistic laboratory for interactive projects which won the Dutch Design Award 2009.
Roosegaarde's work explores the dynamic relation between space, people and technology. In this interaction his sculptures create a situation of 'tactile high-tech' where visitor and (public) space become one. The connection that is established between ideology and technology results in what Roosegaarde calls "techno-poetry".
Daan talks about what this techno-poetry embodies and the role of technology as an extension of ourselves; our second 'social skin'.