Embodied Intention

Corness, Greg; Carlson, Kristin

doi:10.1145/3347122.3347128

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“…This led to multiple modes (or "styles") of walking gaits established and validated in Huzaifa et al, (2019b) and novel biomimetic hardware design implemented in Huzaifa et al, (2019a) that promoted the role of the spine in walking, despite its small displacement relative to lower limbs. Similar investigations have also noted the importance of the spine in communicating intent as in Corness and Carlson (2019).…”

Section: Somatics and Designmentioning

confidence: 62%

Babyface: Performance and Installation Art Exploring the Feminine Ideal in Gendered Machines

Ladenheim¹,

LaViers

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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Representations of gender in new technologies like the Siri, Pepper, and Sophia robotic assistants, as well as the commodification of features associated with gender on platforms like Instagram, inspire questions about how and whether robotic tools can have gender and what it means to people if they do. One possible response to this is through artistic creation of dance performance. This paper reports on one such project where, along the route to this inquiry, creation of machine augmentation – of both the performer and audience member – was necessary to communicate the artistic ideas grappled with therein. Thus, this article describes the presentation of Babyface, a machine-augmented, participatory contemporary dance performance. This work is a reaction to feminized tropes in popular media and modern technology, and establishes a parallel between the ways that women and machines are talked about, treated, and – in the case of machines – designed to look and behave. This paper extends prior reports on the creation of this piece and its accompanying devices to describe extensions with audience member participation, and reflect on the responses of these audience members. These fabricated elements alongside the actions of the performer and a soundscape that quotes statements made by real “female” robots create an otherwordly, sad cyborg character that causes viewers to question their assumptions about and pressures on the feminine ideal.

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Section: Somatics and Designmentioning

confidence: 62%