ROBOTIC ART - Key Persons
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- Principal Scientist at Adobe
Aaron Hertzmann is a Principal Scientist at Adobe and Affiliate Faculty at University of Washington. He received a BA in computer science and art and art history from Rice University in 1996, and a PhD in computer science from New York University in 2001. He was a Professor at University of Toronto for 10 years, and has also worked at Pixar Animation Studios and Microsoft Research. He has published over 100 papers in computer graphics, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, human-computer interaction, and art. He is an ACM Fellow and an IEEE Fellow.
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- Assistant Professor in EECS at UC Berkeley
Anca Dragan is an Assistant Professor in EECS at UC Berkeley, where she runs the InterACT lab. Her goal is to enable robots to work with, around, and in support of people. She works on algorithms for a) coordinating with people in shared spaces, and b) learning what people want the robot to do in the first place. She is also a Staff Research Scientist at Waymo, where she advises the Behavior team, who is responsible for prediction and planning. Anca did her Ph.D. in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University on legible motion planning. At Berkeley, she helped found the Berkeley AI Research Lab, is a co-PI for the Center for Human-Compatible AI. Anca has been honored by the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Sloan Fellowship, the NSF CAREER award, ONR YIP, IEEE RAS Early Career Award, the Okawa award, MIT's TR35, and an IJCAI Early Career Spotlight.
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- Professional Artist, Professor at Concordia University
Based in Montreal, Bill Vorn is active in the field of Robotic Art since 1992. His installation and performance projects involve robotics and motion control, sound, lighting, video and cybernetic processes. He pursues research and creation on Artificial Life and Agent Technologies through artistic work based on the Aesthetics of Artificial Behaviors. He holds a PhD degree in Communication Studies from UQAM (Montreal) for his thesis on Artificial Life as a Media. He teaches Electronic Arts as a Full Professor in the Department of Studio Arts at Concordia University. His work has been presented in multiple international events, including Ars Electronica, ISEA, DEAF, Sonar, Art Futura, EMAF and Artec. He has been awarded a Numix award (2016, Montreal), the Vida 2.0 award (1999, Madrid), the Leprecon Award for Interactivity (1998, New York), the Prix Ars Electronica Distinction award (1996, Linz) and the International Digital Media Award (1996, Toronto).
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- Director of Human Performance Development, Cirque Du Soleil
Catherine (Cat) Maguire is a movement educator, dance artist, Certified Movement Analyst (CMA), Registered Somatic Movement Educator through ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and a master teacher of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System (LBMS). She is a faculty member of WholeMovement, a coterie of Movement Analysts working together to promote the LBMS globally, and has taught and co-coordinated Movement Analysis Certification Programs in the US, Europe, Mexico and currently, China. She has co-authored (in collaboration with Dr. Amy LaViers and the Robotics, Automation and Dance (RAD) Lab), four papers on expressive robotic systems as well as a paper on motif (with LBMS colleagues) as a cross -cultural tool in movement education taught in translation. She was the founder and artistic director of Offspring Dance Company in New York City and the founder and head of the dance program at Drew University in Madison, NJ as well as assistant professor of dance at Piedmont Virginia Community College (PVCC), where she developed the associate's degree in dance, the only one of its kind in the Virginia Community College System.
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- Asst Professor at Oregon State University
Dr. Heather Knight runs the CHARISMA Robotics research group at Oregon State University, which applies methods from entertainment to the development of of more effective and charismatic robots. Their research interests include minimal social robots, multi-robot/multi-human social interaction, and entertainment robots.Outside of Oregon State, Knight also runs an annual Robot Film Festival. Past honors include robot comedy on TED.com, a robot flower garden installation at the Smithsonian/Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, and a British Video Music Award for OK GO's "This Too Shall Pass" music video, featuring a two-floor Rube Goldberg Machine. She has been named to Forbes List's 30 under 30 in Science and AdWeek's top 100 creatives. Prior to her position here, she was a postdoc at Stanford University exploring minimal robots and autonomous car interfaces, conducted a PhD in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University exploring Expressive Motion for Low Degree of Freedom Robots, and received a M.S. and B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she developed a sensate skin for a robot teddy bear at the MIT Media Lab. Additional past work includes robotics and instrumentation at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and sensor design at Aldebaran Robotics.
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- Assistant Professor in University of Tsukuba
Dr. Hirotaka Osawa is an assistant professor in University of Tsukuba. His research field is in human-agent interaction, including development of anthropomorphic devices, simulation for social agent using social games, and humanity studies using science fictions. His own research focuses on how human-like appearance and attitude improves interaction between a user and machines. He also focuses on how social intelligence would improve our society. Dr. Osawa received his PhD in Engineering, MS and BS in Computer Science from Keio University. Profile on the site of Univ. of Tsukuba.
Dr. Madeline Gannon is a multidisciplinary designer forging new futures for human-robot relations. Her work blends art and technology to create better ways to live with machines. Known as "The Robot Whisperer", Dr. Gannon is on a mission to make robotics and other advanced technologies open, accessible, and interesting to diverse audiences around the globe. She is a World Economic Forum Cultural Leader and a Council Member on the Global Council for IoT, Robotics, & Smart Cities. She also holds a Research Fellowship at the Carnegie Mellon Studio for Creative Inquiry, and leads the research studio, ATONATON. Dr. Gannon holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Architecture from Florida International University.
Evan Ackerman has been writing about robots for over 10 years. After co-founding his own robotics blog in 2007, he began contributing to IEEE Spectrum magazine in 2011, and he's managed to write nearly 7,000 articles (and counting) on robotics and emerging technology. In addition to Spectrum, Evan's work has appeared in a variety of other websites and magazines, and you may have heard him talking about robots on NPR's Science Friday or the BBC World Service if you were listening at just the right time. Evan has an undergraduate degree in Martian geology, which he almost never gets to use, and he'd be delighted to talk to you about impact craters given half a chance.
Tracking down interesting robots has taken Evan to conferences and events on almost every continent, and he's actively trying to work out the best way of getting himself to Antarctica. Evan currently lives in Washington DC, along with his partner and a steadily growing collection of robot vacuums. In his spare time, he enjoys scuba diving, rehabilitating injured raptors, and playing bagpipes excellently.
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- Founder of Bits to Atoms, Professional Artist
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- Director of R & D, Moment Factory
Guillaume Bourrassa, director of R&D at Moment Factory will illuminate how the company has been built around innovation, and detail the various mechanisms that constitute the creative engine of the studio-namely the principal research axes, the approach to R&D as well as Research and Creation, a new and promising avenue of investigation. More specifically, Guillaume will present to you the people who make R&D a reality, and the structure and processes that have been developed to initiate and evaluate experiments. Using case studies, he will illustrate how the axes of R&D and R&C foster the spirit of innovation both internally and with external clients and partners.
Overseeing R&D activities at MF, Guillaume draws on his extensive hands-on background as a maker, troubleshooter and multifaceted media hacker. As the former technical director of Montreal's SAT, and multimedia artist under the moniker Création Ex Nihilo, Guillaume has spent over a decade immersed in Montreal's digital art world. At Moment Factory he leverages this expertise to bring together artists and developers with the latest techniques and technologies to spark innovation and raise the bar of Moment Factory immersive experiences.
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- Director of R & D at Moment Factory
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- Founder and Director of Bits
Guillaume Crédoz is the founder and director of Bits to Atoms, a research-creation workshop in Architecture and Design in Beirut, Lebanon. He works on opportunities at the heart of digital design and manufacturing through his creations at different scales, from buildings to objects and machines.
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- Director of CNRS - LAAR
- IEEE Fellow
- Professor and Director of Research at CNRS
Motion representation is a challenge for painting and sculpture from the very beginning of art. With the development of cybernetics in the middle of the twentieth century, motion appears for the first time as a matter by itself. Thenceforth, motion becomes a matter of representation as well as colored pigments for painting and stones for sculpture. From the mobiles of Calder to the moving trees of Bousier de Mougenot, via the Floats of Breer, we will browse some artistic devices to illustrate the purpose. Then we will see how the progresses of robotics technology open new routes for artistic development. As sophisticated as technology is, the central question remains the share of dreams art is conveying: « Dream is everything, technique can be learned
Jean-Paul Laumond - IEEE Fellow, is a roboticist. He is Directeur de Recherche at CNRS. His research is devoted to robot motion. He has published more than 150 papers in international journals in Robotics, Computer Science, Control and Neurosciences. He has been the 2011-2012 recipient of the Chaire Innovation technologique Liliane Bettencourt at Collège de France in Paris. He is a member of the French Academy of Technologies and Academy of Sciences.
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- Artist
- Professional Artist
Justine Emard is a visual artist, based in Paris, France. She creates displays to explore the relations between our existences and technologies. Through different types of interactions, she explores a crossing between robotics, objects, artificial intelligence and life, based on deep learning experiences and human-machine dialogues. Her practice revolves around video, installation, photography and augmented reality. Since 2011, she shows her work in France and abroad into individual and group exhibitions. She is laureate of the residency Hors-les-murs of the Institut Français and Tokyo Wonder Site in Tokyo, for her project Reborn in Japan. She participates to "Clouds ⇄ Forests", the 7th International Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, and she performed "Parade for the End of the World" for Yokohama Dance Collection 2018.
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- Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley
- Professor at UC Berkeley
Ken Goldberg is William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley. Since 1997 he has hosted over 150 presentations by artists and curators at UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture lecture series. His artwork has been exhibited at Ars Electronica, ZKM, Centre Pompidou, ICC Biennale, Kwangju Biennale, Artists Space, The Kitchen, and the Whitney Biennial.