The Dramaturgy for Devices project aims at designing sustained relationships with robots and other smart technologies. It will explore the value of the performing arts as a motor for innovation and reflection in a high-tech society and demonstrate how collaboration with the performing arts can be a game changer regarding the development of the…

  Center Stage Robotics is a collaboration between Ulrike Quade Company, Creative Robotics (programmer Rick van Dugteren and visual artist Bram Ellens) and Utrecht University. It consists of multiple research trajectories in which we explore the possibilities and potential of industrial robots in a performative context, as well as what findings and their creative processes…

  A video documentary made by Chris Rijken about the ongoing research in the ELRAT Lab. ELRAT is an initiative of Bram Ellens, Rick van Dugteren (Creative Robotics), Ulrike Quade (Ulrike Quade Company) and Maaike Bleeker (Utrecht University).  

    Maaike Bleeker receives 2,1 million euros in funding for the project “Dramaturgy for Devices: Designing Sustained Relationships with Robots and other Smart Technologies” from the Dutch Research Agenda programme Research along Routes by Consortia (NWA-ORC). This project is a collaboration between Utrecht University, TU Delft, VU and UTwente and a great number of…

  ** Link to event: UU & Academy: Open round table AI & the Arts (SPRING Academy and Utrecht University)   This AI and the arts round table discussion opened with the question, “What does AI do to the arts?” The interdisciplinary panelists offered insightful perspectives ranging from Dastani’s work with computational modeling of emotion to…

  ** Link to event: UU & Academy: Robots in SPRING (SPRING academy and Utrecht University)   In the Acting Like a Robot exhibition, researchers shared and workshopped their projects that explore what theater can contribute to robotics and what robotics can contribute to the theater.  These projects revealed the limitations of robots as thespians…

    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…