I Want to Believe—Empathy and Catharsis in Robotic Art

Vorn, Bill

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“…We expand on the discussion of embodiment and interaction in Section 6 . Many pioneering experiments in art and engineering collaborations are collected in ( Salter, 2010 ), which includes examples from early art and technology performances (Loie Fuller’s work with dance, film and lighting) and pioneering robot art works by Bill Vorn and Louis Philippe Demers ( Vorn, 2016 ) ( Demers, 2016 ). Within the field of robotics, Amy Laviers ( Ladenheim et al, 2020 ), Catie Cuan ( Cuan, 2021 ), Petra Gemeinboeck ( Gemeinboeck, 2021 ), and Marco Donnarumma ( Donnarumma, 2020 ) have experimented with research strategies that explore dance and other forms of corporeal expression between human and nonhuman performers.…”

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The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

Cubero

Pekarik

Rizzo³

et al. 2021

Front. Robot. AI

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There is growing interest in developing creative applications for robots, specifically robots that provide entertainment, companionship, or motivation. Identifying the hallmarks of human creativity and discerning how these processes might be replicated or assisted by robots remain open questions. Transdisciplinary collaborations between artists and engineers can offer insights into how robots might foster creativity for human artists and open up new pathways for designing interactive systems. This paper presents an exploratory research project centered on drawing with robots. Using an arts-led, practice-based methodology, we developed custom hardware and software tools to support collaborative drawing with an industrial robot. A team of artists and engineers collaborated over a 6-month period to investigate the creative potential of collaborative drawing with a robot. The exploratory project focused on identifying creative and collaborative processes in the visual arts, and later on developing tools and features that would allow robots to participate meaningfully in these processes. The outcomes include a custom interface for controlling and programming robot motion (EMCAR) and custom tools for replicating experimental techniques used in visual art. We report on the artistic and technical outcomes and identify key features of process-led (as opposed to outcome-led) approaches for designing collaborative and creative systems. We also consider the value of embodied and tangible interaction for artists working collaboratively with computational systems. Transdisciplinary research can help researchers uncover new approaches for designing interfaces for interacting with machines.

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The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

Cubero

Pekarik

Rizzo³

et al. 2021

Front. Robot. AI

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The Effects of Soft Somatosensory System on the Execution of Robotic Tasks

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Maniscalco

et al. 2017

2017 First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC)

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Robot Inner Perception Capability Through a Soft Somatosensory System

Augello

Infantino

Maniscalco

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Int. J. Semantic Computing

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The capability of a robot being aware of its internal status is a step forward to the enhancement of human–robot interaction. The possibility of feeling either pleasant or unpleasant sensations is at the basis of the motivation level of a robot. It can modulate the “willingness” of accomplishing a given task. Negative sensations can represent an alarm indicating dangerous situations, while the feeling of a reassuring environment or a well-being sensation can be a stimulus in pursuing the task, even in the presence of a painful perception. In this paper, we illustrate a bio-inspired somatosensory system embedded in a cognitive model for a humanoid robot. The system is based on a set of soft sensors that have been designed in order to make it possible for the interpretation of the robot physical sensations through a proper classification of the perceived somatosensory signals. This interpretation triggers and modulates the motivation level of the robot as well as its behavior.

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I Want to Believe—Empathy and Catharsis in Robotic Art

Cited by 4 publications

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The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

The Robot is Present: Creative Approaches for Artistic Expression With Robots

The Effects of Soft Somatosensory System on the Execution of Robotic Tasks

Robot Inner Perception Capability Through a Soft Somatosensory System

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