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Projects
Synapse Database
1ST JANUARY 2009
Tags science, internet, robotics, augmentation, partners, ars, research
The Synapse Database contains comprehensive information on collaborative projects between artists and scientists. Such projects include the research, development and production of work through residency programs and other means, as well as exhibitions and publications concerned with this interdisciplinary practice.
Synapse elist
3RD MARCH 2008
Tags ars, science, residency, robotics, augmentation, exhibition, bio-art, curatorial
The Synapse elist brought together international experts who discussed leading edge art and science collaborations in areas as diverse as bioart, robotics, mapping and climate change.
Synapse Residencies 2007/08
2ND JANUARY 2008
Tags interactivity, ars, science, residency, cognitive, sound, robotics, medical, neurology
The Synapse Residencies place Australian artists into science and research settings to pursue collaborative projects with benefits accruing to both the resident and the host organisation. 2007/08 was the third year of the project and the first year that artists were placed within organisations outside of Australia.
Synapse ARC Linkage project 2006
3RD JULY 2006
Tags science, robotics
Fish-Bird is the result of a three-year Synapse Australian Research Council Linkage grant. The cross-disciplinary project brought together people from four disparate sectors: a media arts researcher/artist, robotics scientists, partners from major arts organisations and a high-technology business. The collaboration resulted in the creation of a major autokinetic robotic artwork that set the benchmark for what such artwork can be.
News
Art in the Age of Technoscience
31ST AUGUST 2009
Tags Transgenic Art, Genetic Engineering, Robotics, Artificial Life in Contemporary Art, bioart
Is science the new art? Taking this provocative question as her starting point, art historian Ingeborg Reichle examines the fascinating responses of contemporary artists when confronted with recent scientific and technological advances.
Shared Robotics
14TH AUGUST 2009
Tags Experimental, Robotics
Today robot utopias and dystopias have collapsed: Robots are neither slaves nor doomsday machines; on the contrary robots are an increasing part of our everyday lives.
The Hosts: A Masquerade of Improvising Automatons
22ND JULY 2009
Tags event, exhibition, national, Sydney, robotics, performance, interactive art
The Hosts: A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons extends Marynowsky’s development of custom-built robotics and interactive, performative media.
Japanese Fashion Robot
18TH MARCH 2009
Tags wearable tech, fashion, robotics
A fashion robot is ready to rock the Tokyo catwalk later this month.
Dates
VIDA 12.0 - Art & Artificial Life International Awards
22ND JULY 2009 - 1ST OCTOBER 2009
Tags opportunity, international, competition, Spain, AI, artificial life, robotics
VIDA 12.0 rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines: robotics, artificial intelligence, etc. It is looking for works of art with emerging behaviours, which evolve over time, react with their environment and seem to have a life of their own.
MAGIC 2010
15TH JULY 2009 - 4TH SEPTEMBER 2009
Tags opportunity, national, robotics, competition
A million dollar international competition challenging research organisations to build fully autonomous ground robots able to operate effectively in military operations.
Dorkbot Adelaide Meeting
10TH JULY 2009 - 27TH SEPTEMBER 2009
Tags music, DIY, ITC, electronics, craft, art, robotics, electricity, Dorkbots
Dorkbot-Adelaide is part of a new worldwide movement of artists, engineers, designers, hackers who meet to explore and discuss strange or new ways to use electricity and technology.
VIDA 11.0 Awards
9TH JULY 2008 - 6TH OCTOBER 2008
Tags opportunity, international, ai, robotics
Rewards works of art developed with artificial life technologies and related disciplines.
Blogs
Kirsty Boyle - 2008 Synapse Residency
Tags science, residency, robotics
Kirsty Boyle will draw upon her extensive knowledge of Karakuri Ningyo (Japanese mechanical doll making) to develop girltron, a girl robot with a mechanical performance-based artificial intelligence system.
Snippets
Golan Levin
Tags Engineering, Robotics, Cognition, Software, Interaction
Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight.
The Senster
Tags robotics, sculpture, interactive art, cybernetics
Cybernetic sculptor Edward Ihnatowicz built the Senster - a 15 ft long, hydraulic robot - for Philips. It was on permanent display at the Evoluon, in Eindhoven in 1970.
