Hannes Bend
Somatic AI & Bio-Adaptive Interfaces
Hannes Bend develops patented technologies that sense and respond to human state — translating decades of artistic, somatic, neuroscientific, and immersive research into AI systems for wellbeing, performance, research, and human-computer interaction.
Patents
Adaptive-interface patents (US10423893B2, US11561806B2)
Research
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) · Stanford · University of Oregon (Alemán Lab / Institute of Neuroscience)
Somatic AI
Breath · heart rate · posture · emotion — adaptive interfaces
Art + AI
Museum exhibitions · immersive media · environmental installation
Press
Vogue · W Magazine · Fast Company · Whitehot · WLRN/NPR · The Art Newspaper
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 bio-adaptive interfaces
From Art to Somatic AI
One trajectory: perception, embodiment, neuroscience, VR biofeedback, patented AI.
Before founding bio-adaptive AI ventures, Hannes Bend developed an interdisciplinary artistic practice investigating 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
Granted adaptive-interface patents
US Patent 10,423,893 and US Patent 11,561,806.
2021–present
Somatic AI ventures
Breathing AI, VitalSign AI, Optimizing AI and Transforming AI.