Jesse and I will be performing Dog Walk at SIGGRAPH 2026 as part of the Spatial Storytelling program.
Event: Spatial Storytelling
Time: Thursday, 23 July 2026 10:15am – 11:00am PDT
Location: Concourse Hall
Link: https://s2026.conference-schedule.org/presentation/?id=gensub_258&sess=sess334
Jesse and I are thrilled to show our project Dog Walk as part of the CVPR 2026 Art Gallery in Denver Colorado.
link: https://thecvf-art.com/project.php?year=2026&artist=robert-twomey&id=1001
I have a new paper with Ash Eliza Smith framing AI as a Dramaturgical Partner for Live, Embodied Human-AI Performance Systems. This was written for the AAAI Workshop on Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances, 2026, in Singapore.
Smith, A.E., Twomey, R. (2026). AI as Dramaturgical Partner Designing Live, Embodied Human-AI Performance Systems. In: Woodward, K., Falcon-Caro, A., Ramchurn, R., Benford, S. (eds) Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances. CLIP 2026. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2865. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-16893-1_4
We are thrilled to perform DOG WALK, a new episode from our BFF project as the season opening event for the Qualcomm Institute’s Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS).
Date: January 29, 2026
Time: 5pm – 7pm
Location: Atkinson Hall – CALIT2 Theater
BFF: A Dog Walk is an interactive walk and talk with two robot dogs through a guided landscape examining the nature of LLMs, AI alignment problems, and frontiers of machine intimacy. Read more here.
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