Slash Art Tech Lab was founded in 2010 by Mirella Misi, Chris Heijens, Sergio Ulhõa and Frank Händeler, as a space focused on research in the area between art and technology, a space that encourages creativity, exchange of knowledge and individual artistic experiences.

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Inspiration:

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Slash research is directed to interdisciplinary creative processes. The Lab  investigates the poetics created in the incorporation of interactive software programming as part of the artistic creation process, assuming, therefore, technology not as a tool but as a creative partner.

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Research:

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Slash is a “project based” research laboratory, that is, it does not have the same team working on all of its projects, and may include different collaborators depending on the nature of the research in question. The main focus of it's research is the development of interfaces between the virtual and the real. The Lab creates virtual environments in which the public has the opportunity to experience hybrid realities. Slash designs the architecture of both the virtual- and the real space, using all elements that compose perception, to make sense of the interactive experience in these hybrid realities. The exploration of these interfaces between the real and the virtual is a search for an alternative answer to the question of how we can integrate the simulated experiences as a 'real' part of our life.