I was leafing through the UCSB MAT program website and checking out some of the students' work there, and randomly clicked on Mengyu Chen’s website. He mostly seems to do things with VR and AR, but I really loved some of his work on “Objects”, particularly the “Misanthropist”.
https://www.mengyuchen.com/object/Misanthropist
It’s a stool that runs away from you. The video really helps to illustrate it. It’s not perfect, but I think it a brilliant project.