Selected Works

Research Lab

A transdisciplinary space where mechanical engineering meets critical theory. We develop deep-mapping frameworks to navigate the intersections of industrial memory and contemporary artistic praxis.
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Romania — Norway Scientific Axis
A sustained research partnership linking Romanian artists and scientists with Norwegian institutions — focused on environmental sensing, data-driven art, and the material poetics of ecological change.

The collaboration brings together expertise in hydrology, sediment analysis, and climate data with the artistic methods of material experimentation and installation — producing works that make invisible environmental processes tangible.

Key outputs include the Submerged Narratives project (underwater data capture from the Danube) and the Porous Matter series (sediment-based sculptural panels), both of which emerged directly from field research and laboratory analysis.


DISCIPLINES
METHODS
Hydrology · Sediment analysis · Climate data · Material science · Installation art
Field sampling · Sensor networks · Data sonification · Water-jet fabrication · UV resin encapsulation
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01. TRANS-REGIONAL AXIS

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Industrial Porosity
A comparative study between Timișoara’s post-industrial landscape and Stavanger’s offshore architectural footprint. Examining how technical structures breathe through artistic intervention.

Partners
UVT, UiS Norway
Method
Deep Mapping
Sorin Oncu Archive
A critical recovery project dedicated to the late artist Sorin Oncu. Our lab employs digital forensics and technical cataloging to preserve and reactivate Oncu’s discourse on body, power, and identity.
  • Digitization of ephemera
  • Conceptual Cross-Referencing
  • Historical context recovery
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EXHIBITION
Hidden Agenda
CURATED BY COSMIN HAIAȘ
A curatorial project interrogating the concealed mechanisms of power, influence, and institutional control in contemporary art and society.
The exhibition assembled works from multiple artists working across media — installation, video, object, sound — united by a shared concern with what remains unseen, unspoken, or deliberately obscured in systems of authority.
As curator, Cosmin brought an engineer’s systems-thinking to the gallery — treating the exhibition as a network of interconnected signals, each work a node transmitting its own frequency of dissent.

VENUE
ARTISTS
MEDIA
Gallery, Timișoara
Group exhibition — multiple artists
Installation · Video · Sound · Object
CURATORIAL_PROJECTS
Hidden Agenda
Premise
“What remains unsaid in the interface? The invisible protocols that dictate the movement of bodies and ideas.”
VENUE

HEI – House of European Institutes
CURATORS

Cosmin Haiaș, Team X
YEAR

2023.V4