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    • Fluid, Feathers and Flight: Codex ex Machina
    • Fish Phone Booth
    • Beyond the Black Box: A Girl and Her Dog
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    • Three Stage Drawing Transfer
    • STREAMING
    • Rover on VROOM
    • A Machine for Living In
    • Cleaning The Stables
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    • 2026
      • Dog Walk at QI IDEAS 2026
    • 2025
      • Best Friends Forever at NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025
      • Performance Lecture at Claremont McKenna College
      • BFF Presentation at SICCA Fellowship Forum
      • Publication in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2025
      • Quantum Theater at SIGGRAPH 2025 Spatial Storytelling
      • LARPing with the Bots at Kiewit Luminarium
      • New Class for Fall 2025 – Intro to Creative Code
      • Hosting Shirley Tse for the Guest Speaker Series
      • Hosting Mendi and Keith Obadike The Skeuomorph at Gallery QI
      • Judge for the Triton XR Mindfulness Hackathon
      • Invited Speaker on Open Cyberinfrastructure for the Arts at 6NRP
      • AI Da Vinci Performance with NPM at the Sheldon Art Museum
      • Invited Speaker for Experimental Data Visualization Symposium at UNL
    • 2024
      • Artwork at 17th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling
      • Performance for On Display Global 2024
      • Invited Speaker for ASU Center for Science and the Imagination workshop
      • Fish Phone Booth in PST Embodied Pacific at the Birch Aquarium
      • Reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2024
      • NSF Arts and CS Workshop in SLC
      • A Girl and Her Dog Performance for QI IDEAS
      • Salon at Synergia Ranch
      • Symposium on Media Literacy in the Age of AI
      • Fish Phone Booth Playtest at Without Walls 2024
      • Second Annual AI Filmmaking Hackathon
      • AI Theater Performance at the Johnny Carson Center
      • Late-Breaking Work at HRI 2024
      • Robot Cabaret at INCOSE 2024
      • Worlds in Play at ASU MIX 2024
    • 2023
      • NYC Media Lab x Bertelsmann AI and Creative Industry Challenge
      • Ag4Space Symposium at UNL Nov 30
      • Work Featured by the Canadian Center for Architecture
      • Performance-Lecture on Embodied Interaction at SLSA 2023
      • Paper on Real Time AI at SLSA 2023
      • Atlas of Imagination Workshop at Clarke Center
      • Speaking on AI at SD Innovation Day
      • Paper in ACM PACMGIT
      • Talk at SIGGRAPH 2023
      • Radio Play at ISEA 2023
      • SS4ES @ Water for Food Global Conference
      • CTS on No Proscenium
      • Cleaning the Stables in LA Times
      • MAT Spring Seminar Series
      • Chatting GPT at HDSI
      • AI and Creative Filmmaking Hackathon
      • Edgerton Junior Faculty Award at UNL
      • Emergent Narrative Systems Talk @ UCI Beall Center
      • Cleaning the Stables at Without Walls 2023
      • Speaking on Creative AI at the UCSD Design Lab
    • 2022
      • Human-Robot Performance for On Display 2022
      • Paper in Proceedings of POM21
      • AI Radio Play at SLSA 2022
      • Vision Machines at CMU 2022
      • SIGGRAPH Art Paper 2022
      • SIGGRAPH Art Gallery 2022
      • Demo at ISEA2022
      • NSF STEM For All 2022
      • AI Radio PLAY at ISEA2022
      • Embodied Code at CHI22
    • 2021
      • Project at NeurIPS 2021
      • Performance: Artificial Rural Imagination
      • Book Chapter: Communion and Cohabitation
      • POM21 Berlin – Beyond Classification
      • ICER21 Workshop on Embodied Computational Reasoning
      • NU Grant: Design Innovation Core
      • SIGGRAPH Frontiers Workshop – Measurable Creative AI
      • RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts
      • Three Stage Drawing Transfer
      • Grant: Cultivating Tools for Imagination in Engineering
      • CMMC CVPR21 Workshop
      • UChicago Text to Image Workshop
      • SIGGRAPH SPARKS – Robotics, Electronics, AI
    • 2020
      • NSF Grant: Embodied Coding
      • Measuring Creative AI at ISEA
      • New Course – Data Science and the Arts
      • Cultured Data Symposium
      • Disruptive Design & Digital Fabrication @ York
      • Streaming show @ CalIT2
    • 2019
      • Culture Report: Data Culture
      • Cultured Data Speakers List
      • SLSA Talk – UC Irvine
      • Housemachine @ Project Amelia
      • Talk at E.A.T. / Nokia Bell Labs
      • Two Works at ACM DIS/C&C
      • Article on my ML and Arts Course
      • Research in the Arts Grant: Art and Empathy
      • New Course: ECE 188 Machine Learning for the Arts
      • Postdoc at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination
    • 2018
      • AI and Creativity Panel in Seattle
      • URC Grant for Machine for Living
      • Strategic Investment Grant for AR/VR
      • Special Screening @ Athens Digital Arts Festival 2018
      • Dissertation Defended at UW DXARTS
      • Awarded Research Professorship
    • 2017
      • Residency @ CMU STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
      • Workshop @ CMU: Reading and Writing Inhabited Space
      • Invited Talk at CSIS Colloquium Series
      • Behind the Research: Light Field Imaging with Robert Twomey
      • A Machine For Living In @ Westminster College
      • Best Paper Award at SIGGRAPH
      • Rover @ SIGGRAPH 2017
      • NVIDIA Hardware Grant
      • Creating Computational Creativity at UCSD
    • 2016
      • Stereo Electret Preamp TL072 Surface Mount
      • Amazon Cloud Research Grant
      • YSU3DP Workshops 2016 – 2017
      • Exquisite Donut at 2016 VIA Festival
      • Joined faculty at Youngstown State University
    • 2015
      • The Stranger Recommends: Serious Business
      • The Serious Business of Children @ Gallery 4Culture
      • Searle’s Room as Experimental Translation
      • Work Featured @ Microsoft
      • Creative Mornings Talk @ Seattle Art Museum
      • Rover @ BlackBox 2.0, with Mike McCrea
      • ArtsBreak @ the Henry Art Gallery
      • Through Hole Stereo Electret Preamp with TL072
    • 2014
      • Work Featured in the Stranger
      • Sparse Room Models
      • nano motor board
      • Ann Hamilton @ the Henry
      • Speaking at the Seattle Art/Tech meetup Sept 29
      • Drawing Event at the Burke Museum Oct 4th
      • Bluetooth Headtracker – Prototype 2
      • Bluetooth Headtracker – Prototype 1
      • Convex Mirror Featured in UW College of Arts & Sciences video series
      • Work and Teaching Featured in Seattle Times
      • Lightfield Imaging with CNC plotter
    • 2013
      • Storefronts Seattle Art Walk Jan 17
      • Convex Mirror at Storefronts Seattle
      • Face Swap at Meany Hall
      • Speech Technologies Workshop, UNTREF
      • Artist Talk, UNTREF
      • Drawing Machine at SIGGRAPH 2013
    • 2012
      • Face Swap at PUSH Arts Festival 2012
      • Drawing Machine
    • 2011
      • Additive Manufacturing / Rapid Prototyping
      • a broad mandate
    • 2010
      • Lawrence Weiner Statements
      • Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism
      • Compiling/running CMUSphinx EvalDictator
      • Body Temperature
      • single penny front and back
      • fronts and backs
      • Joining UW DXARTS PhD Program
      • Seven Segment Display at Here not There (MCASD)
      • Generating NTSC with Arduino
      • Writeup in Venus Zine: A Show of Their Own
      • and the world is ours
    • 2009
      • if a thing doesn’t exist
      • Talk at DAC 2009
      • Paper and Presentation at DAC’09 (Digital Arts and Culture)
      • Noise Reduction
      • Industry Drawings
      • generator / analyst
      • three mirrors
      • how to
      • garbage cubes
      • [GENERATOR]:this, unfortunately…
      • You Are What You Read
      • Hoover Dam
      • Noun Phrase Analysis
      • Being Someone Else
      • MOCA and LACMA/Broad
      • Yale Art Gallery
      • Uploaded Everything To Flickr
      • Road Movie
      • Saccade 0_4
      • Seven Segment Display
      • Sunlit Display
    • 2008
      • Cocked! at Luis De Jesus
      • Natural Love at Sixteen:One Gallery
    • 2007
      • COMPASS 2007
    • 2006
      • Open, Honest, Responsible
    • 2005
      • Mainframe
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Yearly Archives: 2014

News

Work Featured in the Stranger

2014-12-10 Robert

My work was featured in What Only Artists Can Teach Us About Technology, Data, and Surveillance, a long piece in The Stranger by Jen Graves.

Blog

Sparse Room Models

2014-11-06 Robert

3d scans of rooms for Machine For Living In project.
Acquired with Kinect for XBOX360 and .
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Blog

nano motor board

2014-10-22 Robert

nano_motor_rev3

I’ve designed a circuit board to use the Arduino Nano with 3 Pololu Stepper drivers, for running GRBL in embedded CNC systems.

Continue reading nano motor board →

Blog, Exhibitions, News

Ann Hamilton @ the Henry

2014-10-11 Robert

I’ve built the control system for Ann Hamilton’s Bullroarer installation at the Henry Gallery. This piece, with 21 independent mechatronic sound makers, is installed in the main space of the Museum for her show, Ann Hamilton: the common S E N S E, opening October 11th 2014.

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News, Talks

Speaking at the Seattle Art/Tech meetup Sept 29

2014-09-24 Robert

I’m one of the artists presenting at the Seattle Art/Tech meetup this coming Monday. Meeting at our freshly renovated Ballard Fab Lab (my summer time labor of love).

http://www.meetup.com/ArtsTechSeattle/events/206437122/

Drawings, Exhibitions, News

Drawing Event at the Burke Museum Oct 4th

2014-09-22 Robert

convex lens burke

I’ve helped organize an event at the Burke Museum on October 4th, The Big Draw, which will feature my Convex Mirror drawing machine as well as a number of NeoLucidas. Come by the Museum and draw; by hand, with the neolucida, or check out the drawing machine.

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Blog, In Progress

Bluetooth Headtracker – Prototype 2

2014-09-10 Robert

I’ve designed a bluetooth, rechargeable, 10DOF head-tracking device  for use with the Ambisonic ToolKit (ATK), motion capture, and pan-tilt camera systems. This is the second prototype.

Continue reading Bluetooth Headtracker – Prototype 2 →

Blog, In Progress

Bluetooth Headtracker – Prototype 1

2014-07-22 Robert

prototype head-tracking unit for preview of soundfields and other uses.

Continue reading Bluetooth Headtracker – Prototype 1 →

News

Convex Mirror Featured in UW College of Arts & Sciences video series

2014-06-20 Robert

 YouTube link to Art + Science = DXARTS

Art + Science = DXARTS

As part of a video series produced by the College of Arts & Sciences, graduate student Robert Twomey describes his piece, Convex Mirror, and reflects on how DXARTS is pushing the frontiers of art with unique combinations of art and science.

 

News

Work and Teaching Featured in Seattle Times

2014-03-04 Robert
Critique in my Sensing and Control Class (DXARTS 470)

DXARTS (and my work and teaching) were featured in a long article by Seattle Times arts critic Michael Upchurch which appeared on the Sunday, March 23 issue of the Pacific Northwest Magazine.

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