On 2 September 2021, Maaike Bleeker and Ulrike Quade discussed their project Acting Like a Robot as part of ‘NTF Pro’ at Nederlands Theater Festival. Here they talked about how collaboration between theatre and robotics can lead to mutual development and inspiration. See the video of this conversation below (in Dutch)!     Description (see…

  On 16 September 2021, Maaike Bleeker was invited on “Focus” (NPO Radio 1) to introduce Acting Like a Robot and the project’s collaboration with Bram Ellens’ exhibition Robots in Captivity. Click here to listen to the full interview (in Dutch)!     Description (See below for English) Het project Acting Like a Robot verkent…

    The Fresh Prince before the workshop     The Fresh Prince reprogrammed after the workshop  

    15 October 2022, building Neo the robot baby at Vrije Universiteit                     Photos by Soyun Jang    

These photos of Re-Wired NAO were taken as part of the documentation of the project.  

A first collaboration between Ulrike Quade Company and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam took place in June in the frame of a master’s programme workshop aimed at creating Socially Intelligent Robots. A final performance showing the results of such workshop was developed. Here you will see the documentation of that event.   The pictures were taken by…

As a kick-off of our project Acting Like a Robot, the video “A Robot Walked into the Theatre”, made by the Transketeers, was aired in SPRING on Screen. Here, the pictures taken by Chris Rijksen show the backstage of the debut    

This video, filmed by Tamalone van den Eijnden and Yotam Shibolet, gives an artistic overview of the events and encounters that took place in the Performing Robots Conference of 2019.