MEDIA RELEASE Apologies for cross postings **Us & them & them: Robots, Artists and Scientists**
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the next discussion on the Synapse elist which, throughout 2008, is investigating the leading-edge of art and science research collaboration. The April discussion will concern robotics and artists' engagement with the field. As well as surveying contemporary projects, the conversation will focus on the ramifications of artists working alongside scientists on robotics, now and into the future. Discussion Guests; KIRSTY BOYLE is an artist whose passion for robots has led her to travel the world, working with like-minded puppeteers, animators and roboticists. Her work examines robots as subjects of culture with particular emphasis on how we experience and personalise our interactions with them. She is currently artist in residence and guest researcher at the AI Lab, University of Zurich, where she is working on girlton, a robot combining artificial intelligence with traditional automata. www.anat.org.au/blog/boyle/ PAUL BROWN is an artist and writer who has specialised in art, science and technology since the late 1960s. His work has shown at the TATE, Victoria & Albert and ICA in the UK; ARCO in Spain and the Venice Biennale as well as being represented in public, corporate and private collections internationally. He is currently a visiting professor at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex, where he is working on a project to evolve robots that can draw. www.paul-brown.com SHUHEI MIYASHITA is a scientist who grew up in Tokyo and Tsukuba Science City, Japan. He holds a Bachelor degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and a Masters in Computational Intelligence and Systems Science. He is currently a Ph.D candidate at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Zurich, where he is working on self-assembly robots in order to explore the extent to which artifacts can be used to represent life-like behaviours. http://shuhei.net/ LEONEL MOURA is an artist who works with robotics and artificial intelligence in order to produce "Artificial Creativity". He created his first swarm of autonomous painting robots - able to produce original artworks based on emergent behaviour - in 2003. Since then he has produced increasingly autonomous and sophisticated 'artbots', including RAP (Robotic Action Painter, 2006) created for permanent exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. www.leonelmoura.com/ DOUGLAS REPETTO is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of a number of art/community-oriented groups including dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. He is currently Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center, NYC. http://artbots.org/ MARI VELONAKI is a media artist who engages spectators with digital and robotic 'characters' in interplays stimulated by sensory-triggered interfaces (speech 1995, touch 1997, breath 1998, electrostatic charge 2000, vision system 2000, light 2003, robotics 2003). With Dr David Rye, she co-founded the Centre for Social Robotics at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney and is currently an Australia Council Visual Arts Fellow. www.synapse.net.au/people/mari_velonaki To subscribe to the elist visit: www.synapse.net.au and select 'Discussion List' ___________________________________________________ ANAT is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts http://www.ozco.gov.au its arts funding and advisory body, by the South Australian Government through Arts SA http://www.arts.sa.gov.au and the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
