Cultural Technologies

Dr. Yuji Sone is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, Australia. His research has focused on the cross-disciplinary conditions of technologized performance. Dr. Richard Savery is a developer of artificial intelligence and robotics, using music and creativity as a medium to program better interactions, understandings and models. He is currently a Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Australia, developing new robotic musicians. His current research focuses on the creation of a new drumming and rapping robot, as well as robots painting to music and musical captcha.

Part One: Robot/AI Cultures and Performing Arts Practices

1. Introduction: New conversations across the performing arts

Yuji Sone

2. I am Going to Turn into Peter: Glitching Human-Robot interactions

Yaron Shyldkrot

3. medusai: A Multimodal Large Scale Robotic Musician

Amit Rogel, Jiahe Qian, Ripken Walker, Nicollete Cash, Emily Liu. Hope Phan, Hannah Schlisky, Tristan Al-Haddad, and Gil Weinberg

4. Roboethics and Care in 2032 SMART-FAMILY

Marina Hanganu

5. Choreographing the Future: AI, Dance, and Cultural Transformation

Tanvi Raghuram, Kohinoor M. Darda, and Emily S. Cross

6. Keiichiro Shibuya’s android opera: The theatrics of exoticism

Yuji Sone

Part Two: Performing Arts Cultures and Robots/AI Developments

7. Chikamatsu, Mori, and the uncanny valley

Karl F. MacDorman

8. Towards Embodied AI: Design Approaches for Robots in Opera

Elizabeth Jochum, Tim Hopkins, Chris Kiefer, and Evelyn Ficarra

9. What Does it Mean? On Platform-Invariant “Body-Language” Dictionaries

Amy LaViers

10.Questions of Voice in AI music.

Denis Crowdy and James Leach

11. What Do I Say? Public Interactions with a Drumming and Rapping Robot

Richard Savery, Trinity Melder, and Melissa Hill

12. A.I. Anne: Advocacy, Empathy and Creative Collaborations between Artists and Generative A.I.

Janet Biggs

Contributors

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