Cultural Technologies

Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts presents a diverse range of perspectives from leading scholars and artists on contemporary performing arts practices that engage with robotic and AI (artificial intelligence) technologies.

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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 technologised performance.

Dr. Richard Savery is a developer of AI and robotics, using music and creativity as a medium to programme 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.

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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