BFF Presentation at SICCA Fellowship Forum

I will present my project Becoming BFFs: Developing Cinematic Autoethnography with a Robot Dog as part of the SICCA Fellowship Forum in Fall 2025.

“Becoming BFFs” explores intimacy, embodiment, and AI alignment in the evolving relationship between a human parent and their robot dog. Using LIDAR imaging, 360° video, and snapshots of internal AI model states, I have piloted a hybrid cinematic language that blends human and machine perception. The project extends traditions of cinéma vérité in an algorithmic register, asking what it means to see our selves through the perceptual and cognitive systems of machines. It turns those introspective technologies to describe an emerging human-robot relationship. This project is a collaboration with Jesse Fleming.