Jesse and I will be performing Dog Walk at SIGGRAPH 2026 as part of the Spatial Storytelling program.
Category Archives: Performance
BFF Dog Walk at CVPR 2026 Art Gallery
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
Dog Walk at QI IDEAS 2026
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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Quantum Theater: Extending Reality for Post-AI Liveness
Quantum Theater takes quantum science as subject and method for playable theater. Phenomena like entanglement, superposition, coherence, and collapse shape the performance in a post-AI exploration of liveness, variability, and improvisation. Multiple realities are layered on stage, where the audience as observer-participant plays an active role in cohering singular narratives.
Read more: https://s2025.conference-schedule.org/presentation/?id=spst_128&sess=sess380
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Qualcomm Institute IDEAS Series 2024
Salon at Synergia Ranch
A Salon and Performance / Archive Convening
Hosted by Kathelin Gray, Ash Smith, and Robert Twomey
Thursday, April 25, 5:00PM to Sunday, April 28 12:00PM MDT
Synergia Ranch Retreat Center
26 Synergia Rd
Santa Fe, NM 87508
AI Theater Performance at the Johnny Carson Center
We premiered a 15 minute performance of our project Theater of Latent Possibilities at Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts Demo Day 2024 on March 22nd. This project employs generative AI for real-time performance, hinging on the improvisatory dynamics of human-machine interaction. Here we worked with the archive from Synergia Ranch / Institute of Ecotechnics, in advances of our project in April.
Stay tuned, more to come!
Project Leads: Robert Twomey and Ash Eliza Smith
Project team: Reid Brockmeier, Sam Bendix, Alex Gee, Olli Jenkins, Hank Ball, Lincoln Graham
Performance-Lecture on Embodied Interaction at SLSA 2023
I gave a performance-lecture with Hortense Gerardo and CRANE, the co-robotic arm, for SLSA 2023 at ASU. Our talk discussed perceptions of embodied intelligence and trust in human-robot interaction. This piece builds off of our previous work Dances with Robots, for Heidi Latsky’s ON DISPLAY GLOBAL 2020, and leads towards our IDEAS performance “Beyond the Black Box” at the Qualcomm Institute in May of 2023.
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Short, physical studio exploration. Jumping as high as I can.
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One Way To Form A Bond
This performance explores the bond that purportedly exists between a man and their gun, and through it, investigates the nature of my own attraction to weapons and military culture. My goal was to stage a complicated and compromised version of a bonding ritual that would question the sexualized, hetero-masculinist culture around guns.