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      • Publication in Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2025
      • Quantum Theater at SIGGRAPH 2025 Spatial Storytelling
      • LARPing with the Bots at Kiewit Luminarium
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      • Hosting Shirley Tse for the Guest Speaker Series
      • Hosting Mendi and Keith Obadike The Skeuomorph at Gallery QI
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      • 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
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      • Second Annual AI Filmmaking Hackathon
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    • 2023
      • NYC Media Lab x Bertelsmann AI and Creative Industry Challenge
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      • Paper on Real Time AI at SLSA 2023
      • Atlas of Imagination Workshop at Clarke Center
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      • Cleaning the Stables in LA Times
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      • AI and Creative Filmmaking Hackathon
      • Edgerton Junior Faculty Award at UNL
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      • Speaking on Creative AI at the UCSD Design Lab
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      • Human-Robot Performance for On Display 2022
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      • Vision Machines at CMU 2022
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      • NSF STEM For All 2022
      • AI Radio PLAY at ISEA2022
      • Embodied Code at CHI22
    • 2021
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      • Performance: Artificial Rural Imagination
      • Book Chapter: Communion and Cohabitation
      • POM21 Berlin – Beyond Classification
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      • 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
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      • UChicago Text to Image Workshop
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    • 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
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      • 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
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      • 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
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    • 2014
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      • 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
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      • Convex Mirror Featured in UW College of Arts & Sciences video series
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    • 2013
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      • Speech Technologies Workshop, UNTREF
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    • 2012
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    • 2011
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    • 2010
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      • Joining UW DXARTS PhD Program
      • Seven Segment Display at Here not There (MCASD)
      • Generating NTSC with Arduino
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      • and the world is ours
    • 2009
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      • MOCA and LACMA/Broad
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    • 2008
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      • Natural Love at Sixteen:One Gallery
    • 2007
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    • 2005
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Searle’s Room as Experimental Translation

2015-06-25 Robert

Joe Milutis discusses my project Searle’s Room in his column on experimental translation, Bright Arrogance, in Jacket2.

Please follow the link below to see what he has to say:

Bright Arrogance, Gallery C: Speed, Erotics, Emergence

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