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Wade Marynowsky*, Julian Knowles, Oliver Bown, Sam Ferguson
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
This chapter examines how artist Wade Marynowsky’s recent robotic performance art projects are framed within musical genres: Opera, in Robot Opera (2015), Ambient/Glitch, in Synthesiser-Robot (2017); and Disco, in The Ghosts of Roller Disco (2020). By positioning the projects within known music genres, the research expands the canon of Cultural Robotics by providing platforms that allow wider communities to understand the presentation of robotic performance as cultural events within a historical context. Notions of robotic agency, dramaturgy, choreography, robotic musical gesture, and robotic musicianship are explored across three case studies, which are presented in the contexts of live performance festivals and durational exhibitions: (1) Robot Opera, a dramaturgically designed, interactive opera for eight, larger than life-sized robots; (2) Synthesiser-Robot, a solo autonomous robot performance for a repurposed industrial robot arm, theUR3, and a hardware-software interface, the Ableton Push; and (3) The Ghosts of Roller Disco, a choreographed performance for eight robotic roller skates. The research highlights the importance of robotic agency by applying autonomous and interactive movement, localised sound, and surround sound design in creating immersive and engaging robotic performance art experiences.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Cultural robotics |
Subtitle of host publication | social robots and their emergent cultural ecologies |
Editors | Belinda J. Dunstan, Jeffrey T. K. V. Koh, Deborah Turnbull Tillman, Scott Andrew Brown |
Place of Publication | Cham, Switzerland |
Publisher | Springer, Springer Nature |
Chapter | 14 |
Pages | 219-235 |
Number of pages | 17 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783031281389 |
ISBN (Print) | 9783031281372 |
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Publication status | Published - 2023 |
Name | Springer Series on Cultural Computing |
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Publisher | Springer |
ISSN (Print) | 2195-9056 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2195-9064 |
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review