Artist · Inventor · Researcher · AI Entrepreneur
One practice. People are the medium.
Art since 2003. AI interfaces since 2014 — screens, sound and scent that adapt to the body. Patented since 2019.
“…keep the subject in the world rather than coolly against it.”
Alpesh Kantilal Patel, Miami Rail, 2012
Breathing AI · VitalSign AI · Optimizing AI · Transforming AI
Two decades of painting, installation, immersive media and bioadaptive work
Inventor on two issued US patents in one adaptive-interface family · physiological computing · AAAI · academic collaborations
Bioadaptive screen technology and the longest-running applied venture
Pulse-rate estimates · breathing patterns · movement · user feedback — adaptive interfaces
Artist · Inventor · Researcher · AI Entrepreneur — the integrated trajectory
Vogue · W Magazine · Fast Company · Whitehot · WLRN/NPR · The Art Newspaper
Advisory, licensing, speaking and research collaboration
Exhibitions, Press & Media
Awards, research, and featured coverage.
Awards & Research
AAAI Spring Symposium 2016 — Best Presentation, Stanford. US patents 10,423,893 & 11,561,806.AI & Ventures
Forbes 2018 · Collabs.io 2023 · Techstars Demo Day — coverage of breathing.ai and the AI ventures.Forbes · 2021
This Is The Best (And Most Counterintuitive) Way To Make Career ProgressFast Company · 2024
This browser extension may restore our brain's response to screen stressInterview · 2020
Your UI Is Here For You — Hannes Bend on bioadaptive interfaces
One Practice, 2003–Present
One trajectory: perception, embodiment, neuroscience, VR biofeedback, patented AI.
Hannes Bend’s practice has investigated perception, embodiment, symbolic systems, material instability, environmental sensing, and immersive experience. Painting, sculpture, installation, breath-responsive VR, and neuroscience collaborations became the foundation for a larger question: what if technology could sense human state and adapt to support human wellbeing instead of merely capturing attention?
2003
CircUlaR Series begins
Early work investigating perception, symbolic completion and how viewers construct reality from incomplete visual information.
2014–2016
Metaverses / mYndful — University of Oregon
Interdisciplinary research connecting visual stimuli, meditation, physiological feedback, neuroscience, VR and responsive environments through the Alemán Quantum and Nanoscale Physics Lab and Institute of Neuroscience.
2016
AAAI Spring Symposium — Stanford University
“Mindful Technologies: Research and Developments in Science and Art” and Best Presentation Award in the Well-Being Computing symposium.
2017–2018
Museum presentations
SEAing Breath at the Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science and Pérez Art Museum Miami, and CandY / purAPPification at The Rubin Museum of Art — following Bronx Bit(e)s / sweet streets in the 2015 AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
2019 and 2023
Issued adaptive-interface patents
US 10,423,893 (24 September 2019) and US 11,561,806 (24 January 2023) — “Adaptive interface for screen-based interactions”.
2021–present
Somatic AI ventures
Breathing AI, VitalSign AI, Optimizing AI and Transforming AI.