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LARPing with the Bots at Kiewit Luminarium

Join us for Live Action Robotic Role Play (LARRP) with Robots and Shape the Future of Multispecies Care at the Kiewit Luminarium in Omaha, Nebraska. July 17, 2025, 7-10pm.

We will have two robots on hand that guests can interact with, a robotic dog and robotic arm. Guests will be prompted to interact through different scenarios and play out our robotic futures. We will be gathering data, ideating on and embodying new ways of giving and receiving care in more-than-human futures. This is an extension of the Speculative Robotics Lab pop-up at UNL in 2025.

Ash Eliza Smith 
Robert Twomey
Sam Bendix
Reid Brockmeier

(A Speculative Devices x Cohab Labs Production)
Another Emergent Narrative System

Interviewing a Visitor about their Vision for Co-Robotic Care

Participant roleplaying with Quatro.

Team Photo

Other team photo.

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Symposium on Media Literacy in the Age of AI

I’m co-hosting this symposium on “Media Literacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” April 12, 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts at 1300 Q St. This is a part of our UNL Grand Challenges Planning Grant award with PI Bryan Wang.

Discover how AI shapes our digital lives and connect with experts on AI’s societal impact. Attendance is free. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

We will also screen the films from our AI Filmmaking Hackathon: https://go.unl.edu/ai-film

Featured Speakers

Kjerstin Thorson (Brandt Endowed Professor of Political Communication (@msucomartsci ) explores digital media’s impact on news consumption in “Digital Platforms, Algorithms and the Future of News Consumption.”

Jevin D. West (Associate Professor and Co-Founder of the Center for an Informed Public @uwischool) uncovers AI’s role in misinformation in “Misinformation was Already Challenging — Then Came Generative AI.”

Cindy Shen (Professor and Co-Director of the Computational Communication Research Lab @ucdavis ) equips us to combat visual misinformation in “From Photoshop to Midjourney: Building Resilience Against Visual Misinformation.”

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RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts

J responding to Robot arm drawing

I’m pleased to present a new artwork (Three Stage Drawing Transfer) at the RSS 2021 Workshop on Robotics x Arts!

I’ll also be a panelist for the discussion with Ken Goldberg, Kim Baraka, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, and Eunsu Kang. After years working with mechatronics and various kinds of automation, I’m really looking forward to this discussion with this brilliant group of panelists!

News, Workshops

Speech Technologies Workshop, UNTREF

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Talking To Machines

A short workshop introducing speech recognition and speech synthesis techniques for the creation of interactive artwork. We use pre-compiled open-source tools (CMU Sphinx ASR, Festival TTS, Processing, Python) and focus on the demonstrable strengths and unexpected limitations of speech technologies as vehicles for creating meaning.

Saturday Sept 21, 2-6pm Centro Cultural de Borges, UNTREF.

Masters Student Workshop, “Speech Technologies,” Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires, C.A., Argentina

 

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