Featured press first, then AI and ventures coverage, awards and research, museum and gallery exhibitions, art press and critical reviews, interviews and talks, and video documentation — spanning contemporary art, Somatic AI, bioadaptive interfaces, neuroscience, and immersive media.
Amy Blaschka
Career-progress feature that explicitly recommends breathing.ai and its ML-driven browser extension.
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Gregory Ferenstein
Mentions Hannes Bend and breathing.ai using biometric information to help users reduce stress.
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Jordan Brandes, Kate Levchuk and Hannes Bend
Interview with Hannes Bend on adaptive interfaces, physiological computing, biofeedback and ethics. Conducted January 25, 2020; published on Medium January 26, 2020. Archival edition on this site.
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John White, MBA
Independent third-party profile and interview by John White (MBA) on Medium — not part of Hannes Bend's own Medium writing.
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Coverage of the AI ventures — breathing.ai, VitalSign AI, Optimizing AI, Transforming AI — presented separately from art press to keep the two bodies of work distinguishable. See also Ventures.
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Feature on breathing.ai's browser extension and its approach to workplace screen stress.
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AAAI Spring Symposium Series · Stanford University, CA
Best Presentation Award — Wellbeing Computing, bioadaptive VR biofeedback systems.
TSC 2016 · University of Arizona, Tucson
Research on VR meditation environments and physiological state feedback loops.
Conference presentations, listed separately from exhibitions and museum presentations.
Selected for NEW INC, the New Museum’s incubator, through a Science Sandbox Fellowship supported by the Simons Foundation.
Artist-in-residence developing Biofields and expanding biofeedback-based immersive work.
Visiting scholar and artist-in-residence at Alemán Lab – A Quantum and Nanoscale Physics Lab and Integrative Science Building (LISB), University of Oregon
Research residency with the Metaverses/Seecular collaboration, working with neuroscience labs on biofeedback and immersive environments.
Selected participant; presented in Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial.
LegalArt Miami Residency
Fountainhead Residency, Miami
Wassaic Residency, New York
SLSA/NSF Grant Support
Foundation for Contemporary Arts project support for Bronx Bit(e)s, realised with The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant
Max’s Kansas City Grant
Awarded for Mindful Technologies: Research and Developments in Science and Art.
ArtSlant Golden Frame Award
Award for individual artwork.
More on Research & Patents and Somatic AI.
“2022-2023 Shared Dialogue, Shared Space.” 601Artspace, Chinatown, Manhattan December 16, 2022–January 22, 2023. Organised by Korea Art Forum; confirmed by curator Heng-Gil Han, director of Korea Art Forum.
Youniverse, 3 November – 17 December 2016, apexart, 291 Church Street, New York. Curated and organised by Hannes Bend; opening reception 2 November 2016, 6–8 pm.
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purappification and related CandY works presented at The Rubin Museum of Art in 2018.
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SEAing Breath, the breath-biofeedback virtual-reality project developed for the Miami-Dade County and University of Miami SEA LEVEL RISE programme, was presented at Pérez Art Museum Miami through public programme events.
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SEAing Breath and breath-biofeedback/VR presented as part of the museum's Blue Mind Life program on August 16, 2017.
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SEAing Breath presented in public programming at HistoryMiami Museum, 2017, per the project documentation.
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SEAing Breath presented at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, 2017.
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SEAing Breath shown as an extended public presentation at the Miami Center for Architecture & Design, 2017. Source: project documentation.
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July 9 – September 20, 2015. Curated by Hatuey Ramos-Fermín and Laura Napier. Bronx Bit(e)s / sweet streets was presented as part of Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial at the Bronx Museum of the Arts; the official museum archive lists Hannes Bend among the participating artists. AIM programme membership dates are recorded separately from the biennial dates.
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endlich, January 15 – February 11, 2010, Half Gallery, 208 Forsyth Street, New York. Solo exhibition including sculptures and paintings.
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2010, Freies Museum Berlin. The co-curator’s record names the collaborative umbrella exhibition “Satellites”, comprising three separately curated components: Satellites in the Night (curated by Hannes Bend), To the Thawing Wind (curated by Emilie Trice) and Room without a View (curated by Trong Nguyen). The site’s March 14 – April 19, 2010 range and the co-curator’s March 13 – April 9 record are not yet reconciled, so only the year is asserted here.
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January 15 – March 26, 2017, curated by Gabriel de Guzman. The gallery’s own exhibition brochure lists hannes bend among the exhibiting artists. The Queens Chronicle review of the exhibition (Neil Chiragdin, 19 January 2017) corroborates the title as mUltiverseS, noting “capitalization as per the artist”. The creation year of the exhibited work is a separate question and remains unverified — it is not inferred from the exhibition year.
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April – May 2009, curated by Trong Gia Nguyen. Hannes Bend exhibited Dir (2009), molded candy. The institution’s heading and prose disagree on the closing day (May 16 versus May 17), so no exact end date is recorded here.
Curated by Anna Erickson.
2009, .HBC, Berlin. Curated by Emilie Trice and Christopher David; Hannes Bend participated as an artist. Year precision only — no opening or closing document establishing exact days has been verified.
Shana Beth Mason
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Shana Beth Mason
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Alpesh Kantilal Patel
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Meike Jansen
Berlin gallery review discussing the Cherokee Jeep doors presented as wing-like forms at Levy.
Ashley Lee Wong
Ana Finel Honigman
Review of Berlin exhibitions, February 2009, with substantive discussion of Hannes Bend’s candy sculpture in the group exhibition LYNCHMOB. Month precision only — no publication day is recorded.
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CandY works shown in endlich at Half Gallery, New York.
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Venessa Lau
Profile of the CandY body of work.
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Claire Voon
Reported feature on MJ Caselden’s magnetic sound baths within Youniverse at apexart, crediting Hannes Bend as the organiser. The article’s first photograph was taken at Knockdown Center and is not a Youniverse installation view.
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Ana Finel Honigman
Artforum’s Scene & Herd coverage of Berlin’s contemporary-art scene, identifying Hannes Bend as an artist among the figures documented during the city’s exhibition openings.
Lauren O’Neill-Butler
Artforum’s coverage of the opening of the 2010 Whitney Biennial in New York, documenting Hannes Bend within the contemporary-art community attending the event.
Long-form interviews and podcast conversations. Institutional talks and conference presentations are grouped above under Awards & Research.
Long-form conversation with host Keith Tupac Gatiramu on the personal path from depression to founding bio-adaptive AI ventures — breathwork, mindfulness, the adaptive-interface patents, and Breathing AI and VitalSign AI.
In this conversation with Alice Kanjejo, Hannes Bend discusses his transition from artist and mindfulness practitioner to founder of Breathing AI and Vital Sign AI, and his work on personalized bio-adaptive interfaces responding to vital signs, emotions and posture.
A conversation about Hannes Bend's experience with anxiety and trauma, breathwork, meditation and yoga; the development of breathing.ai; biofeedback and adaptive-screen technology; and integrating healthier nervous-system habits into everyday digital interactions.
Conversation on breathwork, bio-adaptive technology, and the bridge between contemplative practice and art.
Long-form conversation on the bridge between mindfulness practice and AI, breathing.ai and adaptive interfaces.
Essays authored by Hannes Bend on his own Medium profile — distinct from third-party press coverage. Two are linked to their canonical archive editions on this site.
From Heartbreak & Depression to Discovering Purpose — Just To Kick It Is A Blessing!, 2025
How Breathing Can Reduce Stress in the Workplace with Hannes Bend — Dr. Rozina, Happy and Healthy Mind, 2022
Your Screen is Making You Unhappy — Breathing.AI, Interview with Hannes Bend (2020, Authenticity VR)
NEHAN project at MIT 2018 — Heart rate via camera and AI/ML (rPPG), personalized visuals & audio
mYndful VR biofeedback at the Institute of Neuroscience, University of Oregon — Metaverses project (2014–16)
NPR/WLRN Public Television and Radio on ECLIPSE, 2012
Additional project documentation, catalogue essays, and legacy exhibition records are cross-linked from the Art archive and Progression timeline.