Magnetic encounters and embodied conversations
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Paper/Presentation Title | Magnetic encounters and embodied conversations |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Goodall, Jane |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2011) |
Number of Pages | 2 |
Year | 2011 |
Place of Publication | Washington, DC. United States |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://thinkinghead.edu.au/ra2011/pdf/invited_Jane.pdf |
Conference/Event | 2011 ICRA Workshop on Robots and Art: Frontiers in Human-Centred Robotics as Seen by the Arts (ICRA 2011) |
Event Details | 2011 ICRA Workshop on Robots and Art: Frontiers in Human-Centred Robotics as Seen by the Arts (ICRA 2011) Event Date 09 to end of 13 May 2011 Event Location Shanghai, China |
Abstract | The Articulated Head is a collaboration between the performance artist Stelarc and researchers from the Marcs Auditory Laboratories at the University of Western Sydney, to explore the potential for robot-human communication. A three-dimensional image programmed with a complex range of human facial expressions and wide repertoire of everyday speech is mounted on a robotic structure to create a human/machine hybrid. As a gallery installation, the Articulated Head works to establish real-time dialogue between a virtual presence and physically present human being (the gallery visitor), but what does ‘presence’ mean in this situation? At one level, it means simply that the two conversational participants are co-present in time and space. Their engagement, though, involves highly nuanced processes of mutual sensory detection that may be far more subtly communicative than the verbal content of the dialogue. One might say quite literally that they are attracted to each other. This presentation explores the historical association between presence, attraction and magnetism in electro-mechanical research, going back to the speculations of Renaissance Magus John Dee (1527-1608) whose writings on magnetic rays may still have something to teach us about sensory interaction between different kinds of intelligent bodies. Stelarc professes a dislike for historical research into antecedents, and that is not the nature of this enquiry. Rather, I am interested in how certain ideas and images form cultural feedback loops across time, forming remote conversations of another kind. |
Keywords | robots; robotics; installation; virtual reality; non-verbal communication; magnetism |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 360603. Performance art |
460299. Artificial intelligence not elsewhere classified | |
470102. Communication technology and digital media studies | |
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Byline Affiliations | Faculty of Arts |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q0w09/magnetic-encounters-and-embodied-conversations
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