AI
Machine Gesture Design
February 28, 2018 | Naomi Lea | One CommentBoston Dynamics has just released a new video testing their four-legged robot SpotMini, where one helped another by opening a door. This video immediately went viral and received more than 8 million views over the course of two weeks. It also … Read More
The Psychology of Awe
February 22, 2018 | Naomi LeaThe first time seeing Black Flags by William Forsythe, I experienced a sense of wonder and awe that I could not quite explain. It is a familiar feeling, not unlike the times when I saw a brilliant sky, visited a grand … Read More
Machine Theatre
February 14, 2018 | Naomi LeaSeen above is my favourite installation art by roboticist Arthur Ganson.
A chair rests peacefully centre stage. A seemingly cumbersome machine enters. It moves towards the chair, slowly but gracefully, almost floating. The machine swoops ups the chair. It performs a … Read More
Reinforcement Learning in Processing
February 13, 2018 | Dhruv KumarIn 1997, Michael Mozer with an incredible group of students converted a mundane farmhouse into an adaptive house. The house started with no knowledge of its inhabitants and did not perform as one would expect a ‘smart house’ to do. … Read More
Simulacrum
https://vimeo.com/234831218 Simulacrum is a project researching how human spatial perception works across physical and virtual spaces simultaneously. The disjunction between physically occupied and...
