אומנות, עיצוב וממשק אדם-רובוט

Ben Gurion University and Bezalel Acdemy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem proudly present Creative Collaborations: Art, Design and Human-Robot Interaction
January 10, 2019 at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Oren Conference Hall

9:30-10:00 Welcome & opening remarks
Professor Daniel Chamovitz, BGU President Elect

10:00-11:00 Keynote: Joanna Zylinska (Goldsmiths, University of London)

11:15- 11:00 Coffee break

11:15-12:45 Panel 1: (Un)natural Bodies

Chair: Romi Mikulinsky
Nea Ehrlich - Looks Familiar: Recognizability, Realism and Robotic Vision (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel), Eliyahu Keller - Virtually, Actually, Accidently, Human: Westworld and the Problem of the Real (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) ,Cristina Moraru - The Aesthetic Machine. Art and Technology in Post-Humanist Times (George Enescu National University of Arts, Romania)
George Themistokleous - Digitized and Re-Doubled Bodily Images (Leeds Beckett University, UK)

12:45-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:30 Panel 2: Mechanized Creativity

Chair: Eyal Fried
Romi Mikulinsky – Unlearning Machine Learning: New Narratives
for Human-Robot Relations (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design,
Israel), Barbara Oettl - From Virtual to Literal Cyborg: ORLAN’s ORLAN-oïde (University of Regensburg, Germany and CISC – Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences), Simon Ingram - Unthunk Device (University of Auckland, New Zealand), Hila Shemer – Pythia: The Confession Robot (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel)

15:30-15:45 Coffee break

15:45-17:15 Panel 3: Designing Curious Encounters

Chair: Nea Ehrlich
Meike Uhrig - Homo Artificiosus (Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany)
Liat Lavi - Robots Anthropomorphism - Design Meets Ethics and Law (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel), Eyal Fried - The Curious Case of Artificial Curiosity (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel)
Barak Pelman and Lior Skoury - Can Robots Change the Way Architects Work? (Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Israel)

17:15-17:30– Coffee break

17:30-18:30 – Keynote: Ken Goldberg (University of California, Berkeley)

Participation is free of charge, but pre-registration is necessary
Please register at the conference website

For further information, contact Ruth Yurovski at ruthyuro@post.bgu.ac.il

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The conference is a collaborative project between the Departments of Arts (Nea Ehrlich) and Industrial Engineering and Management (Tal Oron-Gilad, Vardit Sarne-Fleischmann and Yael Edan) at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev with the M.Des Program in Industrial Design (Romi Mikulinsky ) at Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem.
This conference is supported by ABC Robotics Initiative and the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences for Multidisciplinary Research Activities, both at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and בצלאל אקדמיה לאמנות ועיצוב ירושלים - Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design