In the Acting Like a Robot research project, we bring together theatre makers and roboticists to investigate how theatre can contribute to the design of robot behaviour and the interaction between humans and robots and, vice versa, how robotics opens new terrain for theatre-makers. During this afternoon in Het Huis Utrecht, we will…

    UU SPRING Festival Fellow Chris Salter speaks about his work This talk examines recent work in machine performance linking the disciplines of visual anthropology, cybernetics, Artificial Life and Deep Learning-based artificial intelligence. As recent explorations of “machine vision” in robotics demonstrate, cameras can increasingly be understood as instruments of capture and representation which…

  How do we imagine the future of robots? What does it mean to share the world with them? In this podcast series, Luc de Groen examines together with scientists and artists what the future of social robotics will look like, and how could theatre – specifically object theatre – can inform this field. This…

    “Oh shit. I fucked up!” A creative process is full of mistakes that we like to forget quickly. Ok, but not today. Ulrike Quade company, Performance Technology Lab, Likeminds and Innovation:Lab van Theater Utrecht present: Future Stages #4: Fuck Up Friday, where performing arts professionals share fuckups so that you can learn from…

    An annual series of events specifically curated to introduce the exciting crossover domain between art, technology, science, and society to those not yet familiar with it. This year, the Crash Course in Art & Media Technology will focus on media art’s relation to music, dance, theater, and performance art. Scenography is the crafting…

    An annual series of events specifically curated to introduce the exciting crossover domain between art, technology, science, and society to those not yet familiar with it. This year, the Crash Course in Art & Media Technology will focus on media art’s relation to music, dance, theater, and performance art. Performance art sometimes includes…

    As part of [Design United Expo] at Dutch Design Week, members of Acting Like a Robot present “Entanglements with AI”. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fundamentally shaping future societies. It’s therefore important to understand AI’s role as a design material. This is more than the computation  – AI is a technology that can transform…

NVP (The Dutch Association for Puppetry) Lecture: Robots in Theatre in collaboration with Ulrike Quade Company Saturday 22 Octoboer 2022, 10:00 Schouwburg Ogterop – Foyer (1), Zuideinde 70, 7941 GK Meppel **Event in Dutch / Register here. Maaike Bleeker,  Irene Alcubilla Troughton, and Marijke Hessels present Acting Like a Robots project “Robots in Theater” at…

  **Read the original article here In a future where humans and robots mingle in everyday settings such as supermarkets, robots should be designed to act appropriately so that people accept their presence and know how to respond to them. For example, how can the robot signal it does not want to be disturbed when…

  On Friday 20 May at Het Huis Utrecht, participants will be introduced to the NAO Re-Wired and Improvising Robots research projects, that are being developed as part of Acting Like a Robot: Theatre as Testbed for the Robot Revolution. This research is about the way theatre and robotics may mutually inform and inspire one another. NAO Re-Wired…