Cultural Technologies

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.

• PART ONE: Robot/AI Cultures and Performing Arts Practices1. Introduction: New conversations across the Performing ArtsYuji Sone2. I am Going to Turn into Peter: Glitching Human-Robot interactions Yaron Shyldkrot 3. Medusai: A Multimodal Large Scale Robotic MusicianAmit Rogel, Jiahe Qian, Ripken Walker, Nicollete Cash, Emily Liu. Hope Phan, Hannah Schlisky, Tristan Al-Haddad and Gil Weinberg4. Roboethics and Care in 2032 SMART-FAMILY Marina Hanganu5. 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 ExoticismYuji Sone PART TWO: Performing Arts Cultures and Robots/AI Developments7. Chikamatsu, Mori, and the Uncanny Valley Karl F. MacDorman8. Towards Embodied AI: Design Approaches for Robots in OperaElizabeth Jochum, Tim Hopkins, Chris Kiefer and Evelyn Ficarra 9. What Does it Mean? On Platform-Invariant "Body-Language" Dictionaries Amy LaViers10. Questions of Voice in AI Music.Denis Crowdy and James Leach11. What Do I Say? Public Interactions with a Drumming and Rapping Robot Richard Savery, Trinity Melder and Melissa Hill12. A.I. Anne: Advocacy, Empathy, and Creative Collaborations between Artists and Generative A.I.Janet Biggs