The Robots and Avatars Collaborative Futures panel took place at the Kinetica Art Fair on Saturday 6th February at 11am. It looked at working processes and collaborations between the physical and virtual in future work environments, imagining teams that may include the live, the virtual, robots and avatars. Examining new creation techniques of self representation, developing in the forms of robots and avatars, the debate explored the effect of these evolutions on creative outputs and onwards working modes.
Panel members included Prof. Noel Sharkey (University of Sheffield), Ron Edwards (Ambient Performance), Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space), Peter McOwan (Queen Mary, University of London), Anna Hill (Space Synapse) and Michael Takeo Magruder (King’s Visualisation Lab, King’s College London).
Kinetica Art Fair took place at P3, Marylebone, London from 4-7th February 2010. It is a unique opportunity to view and purchase artworks from leading contemporary arts organisations and artists specialising in kinetic, electronic, robotic, light, sound, time-based and interdisciplinary new media art.
For further info go to kinetica-artfair.com
To see photos from the panel at Kinetica Art Fair click here.