How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics
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| author | Benford, Steve Garrett, Rachael Schneiders, Eike Tennent, Paul Chamberlain, Alan Avila, Juan Brundell, Pat Castle-Green, Simon |
| author_facet | Benford, Steve Garrett, Rachael Schneiders, Eike Tennent, Paul Chamberlain, Alan Avila, Juan Brundell, Pat Castle-Green, Simon |
| contents | We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker's Broncomatic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bull ride. Blast Theory's Cat Royale deployed a robot arm to play with a family of three cats for twelve days. Different Bodies is a prototype improvised dance performance in which dancers with disabilities physically manipulate two mirrored robot arms. We reflect on these to explore how artists shape robotics research through the two key strategies of improvisation and provocation. Artists are skilled at improvising extended robot experiences that surface opportunities for technology-focused design, but which also require researchers to improvise their research processes. Artists may provoke audiences into reflecting on the societal implications of robots, but at the same time challenge the established techno-centric concepts, methods and underlying epistemology of robotics research. |
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| publishDate | 2024 |
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| spellingShingle | How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics Benford, Steve Garrett, Rachael Schneiders, Eike Tennent, Paul Chamberlain, Alan Avila, Juan Brundell, Pat Castle-Green, Simon Robotics We explore transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and roboticists across a portfolio of artworks. Brendan Walker's Broncomatic was a breath controlled mechanical rodeo bull ride. Blast Theory's Cat Royale deployed a robot arm to play with a family of three cats for twelve days. Different Bodies is a prototype improvised dance performance in which dancers with disabilities physically manipulate two mirrored robot arms. We reflect on these to explore how artists shape robotics research through the two key strategies of improvisation and provocation. Artists are skilled at improvising extended robot experiences that surface opportunities for technology-focused design, but which also require researchers to improvise their research processes. Artists may provoke audiences into reflecting on the societal implications of robots, but at the same time challenge the established techno-centric concepts, methods and underlying epistemology of robotics research. |
| title | How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics |
| topic | Robotics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22462 |