Being material Code as material Ben Fry Casey Reas Frugal science in the age of curiosity Manu Prakash Jim Cybulski Rebecca Konte Team foldscope and global foldscope community machine agency Nadya Peek. In 1995 MITs Nicholas Negroponte predicted that being digital would have us entering a realm increasingly unconstrained by the materiality of the world. Two decades later our everyday lives are indeed ever more suffused by computation and calculation. But unwieldy materiality persists and even reasserts itself. At the intersection of art science and technology Being Material revisits Negropontes prediction by exploring new and unexpected convergences between the digital and the material in the practices of artists designers engineers and scientists who work with programmable matter self assembling structures 3D 4D printing wearable technologies and bio inspired design. This book will radically intervene into the understanding of how material dynamics limit expand transform and or vivify our biological social and political lives. Being Material will revisit the history of material science (particularly at MIT) contribute to new materialism in critical theory and place both projects in dialogue with kindred and contrasting philosophy art practice and critique. The editors and contributors refine and expand on such cross field investigations by developing a contrast among five different material genealogical lineages: programmable wearable livable invisible and audible