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15 Hexapod-Robots with Directional Sound swarm on the green grass of Riverside Grenn during this years World Science Festival Brisbane.
Come and engage with this different kind of mechatronic lifeform!
Wed 22 March, 2023-Sun 2 April, 2023
8:00 am – 8:00 pm
Riverside Green, South Bank Parklands, Brisbane
A successful trip to our lovely konS partners in Slovenia in April and May! Engaging Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students at the University of Maribor to further develop the next iteration of our Empathy Swarm robot tracking system with FPGA, giving workshops and presenting the swarm in Ljublijana and at XCenter in Novo Gorica to art students about digital storytelling and color theory and all that with our quick to install pop-up version of the swarm.
Looking forward to our next stay and future developments that will arise from this!
The project is developed within the framework of konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.
The new generation of our Empathy Swarm robots is running with FOC motor control! Together with Richard Unger we developed the Whisper boards to create a more dynamic moving robot with much lower power consumption, going from 3 1/2 h to 2 days of runtime!
100 robots means 300 wheels, means 300 tiny FOC boards of 2 x 3 cm. So we are very grateful to our sponsor BTG Elektronik to do the assembly of more than 20.000 SMD parts for us! We also appreciate the support from Eurocircuits to supply the PCBs! In such a difficult year with the global chip crisis, it is fantastic to be able to count on the professional support of our sponsors! Thanks a lot to BTG Elektronik and Eurocircuits!
Also thanks a lot to Richard Unger for his brilliant designs and knowledge exchange! It’s great to meet new friends with the same passion and see the results of this kind of inspired fruitful collaboration!
The new FOC motor control PCBs are kindly assembled by BTG Elektronik and produced by Eurocircuits.
Our Empathy Swarm robots were part of the one hour opening ceromony of Deutsches Museum Nürnberg / the Future Museum last Friday!
The first act of state for our swarm, we are so proud of them! 🙂 In a new production in collaboration with ballet dancer Emily Fernandez we prepared a new format of interactive dance choreography giving an insight into the future of human machine relationships.
Here you can see the performance in the live stream of the opening ceremony.
Photo credits: Deutsches Museum/Thomas Langer
The final crescendo of EMAP / EMARE and we are proud to be part of it! We are also very happy about all of the good things that came (and are still coming) out of our initial residency with Kontejner and the whole EMAP network. With good memories of the latest pandemic adapted online versions of Empathy Swarm first developped as part of Impakt’s A world without us revisited and Cyborg Futures, then evolved into Telehabitats for Werkleitz’s move to… festival this year, now being part of the Ars Electronica EMAP Garden!
Join us in the EMAP garden on Sunday, 12. September, 8:00 PM – 9:00 PM !
We are looking forward and want to thank Werkleitz and everyone for the wonderfull time we had with EMAP / EMARE !
Telehabitats is supported by Stipendienprogramm NRW für Künstler*innen.
Check out ZKM’s LIVESTREAM on the 4th August at 7 p.m. to learn more about our Intelligent Museum Residency at Hertz-Lab and the development of Empathy Swarm – Reward and Punish – we are creating in our “Mad Scientist Lab” 😉
Funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Goverrnment Commisioner for Culture and Media).
The work is developed in the framework of the “Intelligent Museum Residency” at ZKM and Deutsches Museum.
We are glad to be part of ZKM’s Intelligent Museum Project! During our residency this summer at Hertz-Lab, we will develop a Reinforcement Learning Algorithm to enable the audience to collectively teach the swarm new behaviours through Rewarding or Punishing their actions in certain states!
In September we will present the results and devise learning experiments in collaboration with Deutsches Museum in Munich / Nuremberg. Looking forward to exiting next steps for our swarm!!
Funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural Foundation).
Funded by the Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien (Federal Goverrnment Commisioner for Culture and Media).
The work is developed in the framework of the “Intelligent Museum Residency” at ZKM and Deutsches Museum.
We enjoyed 3 days of Werkleitz Festival 2021 – move to… bodydata spheres with Empathy Swarm! Feeling connected through the Telehabitats interface which enabled visitors in Halle to interact through the swarm with us at home.
Thanks to werkleitz for this great collaboration with a fantatstic team on the other side! We hope to get another chance to meet up with everyone from EMAP / EMARE again live!
Thanks to the stipend program for artists of North Rhine-Westphalia to make Telehabitats possible!
The project is supported by Stipendienprogramm NRW für Künstler*innen.
We are happy to be selected by konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art – to develop a new version of our project Empathy Swarm and to evolve the concept of distances through directional accoustics!
Looking forward to a fruitfull collaboration with Slowenian specialists from different fields from electronics design to choreography!
The project is developed within the framework of konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.
The project is supported by Stipendienprogramm NRW für Künstler*innen.
Empathy Swarm gets featured in the German speaking culture magazine of SRF Kultur
Sternstunde Kunst: Wie künstliche Intelligenz und Robotik die Kunst revolutionieren
This fantastic movie by Frauke Schlieckau from BOTTEGA BERLIN gives an insight into art and artificial intelligence and we are proud to be part of it with our swarm 🙂
Thanks to Frauke and her nice film crew!
And of course thanks to Stiftung Kunstfonds for their gracious support!
In times of self-isolation and social distancing, unfortunately you can’t meet the robots in physical space, but we found a platform, called “twitch.tv” which is widely used among gamers to view and engage with their online community. This platform enables our robots to perform for you and even – although with a bit more work – to receive your input.
Empathy Swarm Remote Memory is a vessel for your memory in a possible ‘World without us’ and is part of Impakt’s online exhibition ‘A WORLD WITHOUT US REVISITED’ .
The next interactive live streams of Empathy Swarm Remote Memory on twitch.tv will be on:
Friday 28th August, 6 – 9 p.m. and
Saturday 29th August, 6 – 9 p.m.
The new year started and we finally found the time to cut the video material we filmed at QUT Art Museum in Brisbane.
So enjoy the swarming of 50 robots and be curious of what our little ones are going to learn this year! 🙂
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.
Some memories of our two workshops on 28th and 29th of October for Polish students at Collegium Da Vinci . Among other workshops during their International Days, students could learn programming of generative geometries that shift their shapes with the input of sound with Katrin or build their own parabolic directional speaker robot with Adam. We hope everybody learned something new!
We enjoyed to be part of ORF’s musikprotokoll 2019!
Our psychophysics machines and reactive field line visuals were in the center of our Robotic performance at esc medien kunst labor on Friday 4th October 2019. The next day we gave a robotic workshop and an insight into the different psycho-physics effects that are the foundation of this piece.
ORF’s radio program will feature the concert soon. We are curious how the surround microphones of ORF’s recording team captured the directional sound sculpture we created! We will keep you updated!
Credit:
ORF Musikprotokoll; FR, 04.10.2019; © NICOLAS GALANI
It is fantastic to have a solo exhibition at esc medien kunst labor where Curious Tautophone, Empathy Swarm and Dr. Doppler as well as Multiplexing Tautophone and Swarm Drawings are all exhibited together.
Creating a dialog with the visitors about the use of technology today, from the use of emotion recognition to influence the mood of our Empathy Swarm to the poetic reflection of creating moments that can only be experienced in the here and now as an antithesis to omnipresent media consumption.
Thanks to Reni Hofmüller and the great team of esc who foster this communication and dialog!
We are also happy to be part of Steirischer Herbst 2019 with this exhibition and ORF’s Long Night of The Museums / Lange Nacht der Museen!
Exhibition dates:
21 September 2019 – 15 November 2019
Opening times:
Tuesday – Friday 2 PM – 7 PM
or after arangement
Credit:
EMPATHY SWARM, CURIOUS TAUTOPHONE AND DR. DOPPLERS MACHINE
esc medien kunst labor 2019
Foto: Martin Gross
steirischerherbst’19
After a fantastic opening with a great speech by Courtney Peterson and a huge success with more than 2000 visitors on the first weekend with ROBOTRONICA, the robots are now swarming at QUT Art Museum till the 27th of October.
Thanks to the QUT team for a smooth setup and the great didactic space!
Closed Mondays
Tuesday – Friday 10AM – 5PM
Saturday Sunday 12PM – 4PM
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Installation view of Empathy swarm at QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Photos by Carl Warner
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.
Shortly after the opening of Empathy Swarm we and our robots are part of ROBOTRONICA !
Showcasing some of the world’s latest advancements in robotics and technology, Robotronica is a celebration of innovation and an opportunity to glimpse the possibilities of the future.
Join us on Sunday 18 August for an artist talk and showcase of the swarm!
Our robots are packed and on their way to Australia. With the pick and pluck foam they got their custom made home for a long and rough journey.
Thanks to SKB for sponsering two robot homes!
Empathy Swarm comes to Australia! Our robots are looking forward to be in Brisbane at QUT Art Museum from , 17 August – 27 October 2019 and to meet people from another continent.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
The work is coproduced at Kontejner within the framework of EMAP / EMARE and co-funded by Creative Europe.