CNR 2016: Lectures: Elizabeth Jochum (USA): Deus Ex Machina: Robots and Puppets in the 21st Century

Robots and puppets are linked by a common human impulse: the desire to give life to nonliving objects through the animation of material forms and reveal aspects of the human experience. Given the proliferation of robot performances on theatre stages across the globe and the enduring fascination with puppetry, it is worth investigating the aesthetic and kinetic relationship between puppets, robots and other emerging technologies. This presentation cites examples of contemporary robot performances that draw on techniques of traditional puppetry. I outline how entertainment robotics use puppetry-inspired choices to design intuitive interfaces for designing and operating entertainment robots. Puppetry's influence on robotic art and robot performance is not just historical, but is fundamental to designing robots that are creative and expressive.

BIO. Elizabeth Jochum (BA Wellesley College; MA, PhD University of Colorado) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark and the co-founder of Robot Culture and Aesthetics research group at the University of Copenhagen.  Her research focuses on the intersection of robotics, art, and performance. She is a member of Aalborg U Robotics and Erasmus Mundus Media Arts Cultures graduate faculty, where she collaborated on the Geminoid DK and iSociobot projects.  She serves on the editorial boards of Global Performance Studies and PARtake Journal of Performance as Research. Her research appears in Robots and Art (Springer), Controls and Art (Springer), Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier) and the International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer).

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Elizabeth Jochum

Elizabeth Jochum is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Psychology at Aalborg University, Denmark and the co-founder of Robot Culture and Aesthetics research group at the University of Copenhagen.

Deus Ex Machina: Robots and Puppets in the 21st Century
Elizabeth Jochum will present her lecture "Deus Ex Machina: Robots and Puppets in the 21st Century" at 10:30 - 11 am on the 26 October 2016 at IIM (Institute of Intermedia), FEL CVUT (Czech Technical University) in Prague.

IIM (Institute of Intermedia)
Hall H25 at FEL CVUT
Technická 2
CZ-160 00 Prague.
Czech Republic

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Thanks to the U.S. Embassy for supporting that Elizabeth Jochum can present her talk in Prague.