Following the acceptance of a paper in the proceedings of the Movement and Computing Conference, authored by physicists Carina Karner and Chiara Cardelli (research team Dr. Christoph Dellago) and composer Adrián Artacho, we travelled to Genoa (Italy) to present a performance workshop informed by the FIT workshop held in February. 

The workshop used smartphones to lead the participants through the Ising model, as a means to understanding natural processes such as phase transitions or magnetism (to name a few) in a more intuitive, embodied manner. The system was powered by a specially designed software developed by engineer Oscar Medina. Below these lines you can see a video by Siavash Talebi that illustrates the idea: