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A Crash Course – Media Art X Performance Art – Maaike Bleeker and De Transmissie
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…
Read moreA Crash Course – Media Art X Performance Art – Irene Alcubilla Troughton and Daniel Simu
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…
Read more[Dutch Design Week] Entanglements with AI
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…
Read moreNVP Lecture: Robots in Theater
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 moreHow to Be a Robot in a Supermarket?
**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…
Read more[SPRING Utrecht] Masterclass New Technologies in Performing Arts
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…
Read moreUlrike Quade Company presents Future Stages #2
Ulrike Quade Company, onze partner in het Acting Like a Robot onderzoek organiseert drie bijeenkomsten over theater & Technologie: Denk met ons mee over de relatie tussen technologie en de podiumkunsten Datums: 23 maart | 20 april | 11 mei Yes! Vorig jaar geannuleerd door de pandemie…maar we mogen weer! Onder de naam Future…
Read more[Floriade Expo 2022] Ulrike Quade Company robot show lends emotion to innovations at Floriade
With the Acting Like a Robot research we participated in the development of Ulrike Quade’s latest creation: a spect acular welcome act (titled Okay, I’m Al-x) and a poetic performance (titled Rocky the Robot) for the Floriade 2022 exhibition in Almere. At the entrance of the Floriade the visitor encounters a four-and-a-half meter high…
Read moreSecond Workshop on Rule Based Robot Improvisation
Marit Adriaanse On Friday the 11th of February, the second workshop on rule based robot improvisation of the Acting Like a Robot Research Project took place. The workshops are meant as a place for the exploration of rule-based improvisation techniques as a means for the development of Human-Robot Interaction. This workshop consisted of a…
Read moreEvent Report: Sixth Sprint Ulrike Quade Company and Bram Ellens for Floriade
Marit Adriaanse On Thursday the 10th of February the sixth sprint of the collaborative project between Bram Ellens and the Ulrike Quade Company for Floriade 2022, which is part of the Acting Like a Robot research project, took place in Almere. The session started with the invitation to the attendees to watch the…
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