Category Archives: Events

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Event, Interactive, Interconnected, Performance |

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Tickets now available for Interconnected Premiere in Witten, February 2026

Our Interconnected robots are getting ready for their first public encounter with human audiences.

You can book your free tickets here: Kulturforum Witten Tickets 

Thu 26 February 2026 / 7 p.m.

Fri 27 February 2026 / 7:30 p.m.

> Interconnected – Project page

 

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Unsere Interconnected Roboter bereiten sich für ihr erstes öffentliches Zusammentreffen mit menschlichem Publikum vor.

Hier könnt ihr eure freien Tickets buchen:  Kulturforum Witten Tickets 

Do. 26.02.2026 / 19:00 Uhr

Fr. 27.02.2026 / 19:30 Uhr

> Interconnected – Project page

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Funded by:

Gefördert durch das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen im Rahmen des Förderprogramms Neue Künste Ruhr.

Electronics Design:

Richard Unger aka Small Robotics.

Artwork, Exhibition, Interconnected |

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Artificial Creativity – Dreaming with machines

We are excited to announce that we will be part of the exhibition “Künstliche Kreativität” at Aargauer Kunsthaus!

An adaptation of our piece Interconnected will be developed for the exhibition.

“Artificial Creativity – Dreaming with machines” – What a matching title for our robots to be part of this 🙂

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Funded by:

Gefördert durch das Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen im Rahmen des Förderprogramms Neue Künste Ruhr.

 

Artwork, Exhibition, Plasticity of Mirrors |

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Plasticity of Mirrors – An Experimenta Emergence Commission

Plasticity of Mirrors is a robotic swarm species designed for the democratic creation of a collective intelligence seeking new possibilities of human relationality with emergent beyond-human species.

We are excited to be part of Experimenta Emergence with our new work Plasticity of Mirrors! We are also thankful for the commission of the work through Experimenta and the support of the Australian Goethe Institut to get us out there!

> Plasticity of Mirrors – Project page

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The work has been commissioned by Experimenta.

The project is supported by the Goethe-Institut.

Electronics Design:

Richard Unger aka Small Robotics.

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Artwork, Empathy Swarm, Exhibition, Festival, Robotics, Sound |

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Empathy Swarm – Soundscapes @ WIP festival

Empathy Swarm V4, our evolving sound version of the swarm has been part of WIP Festival 2024 “DE CLOUD” in autumn 2024 as part of the curatorial theme “Simulation __________ Reality”.

We enjoyed our time in Cyprus and to work with the WIP team. We especially appreciated all the keepers of the swarm who developed a quite personal and caring relationship to our Empathy swarm robots. It was a great exchange and community experience with the other artists, the WIP team and the audience. Thanks for a great festival!

Photos Ownership: CYENS Centre of Excellence
Photographers: Giorgos Dimoglou, Konstantinos Irakleous, Nicolas Karatzas, Nicholas Georgiou (NGP)

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Curious Tautophone, Directional Speakers, Exhibition, Sound |

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Solo exhibition of Curious Tautophone @ KIBLA KiBela, Maribor

We are happy to have another show in Maribor! Thanks Peter for the invitation!
Set up in the beautiful space of KIBELA, Curious Tautophone – Tensor Field Ontology, mesmerized with its enigmatic feel once more!
Exhibition dates: 12 April–4 May 2024

Photo credits: Janez Klenovšek

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Empathy Swarm, Exhibition, Interactive, Sound |

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Empathy Swarm – Soundscapes @ PACT Atelier No. 69

We enjoyed to have an evening out with our Empathy Swarm soundscape version and to get to know the work in progress of our peers in the Ruhr area!

Thanks to the PACT team for a quick and smooth setup and an inspiring evening!

 

Photo credits: PACT Zollverein / Dirk Rose

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Cybernetic Intimacy, Directional Speakers, Exhibition, Festival, Performative Installation |

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Cybernetic Intimacy @ Poletnemu lutkovnemu pristanu in Maribor

We are very happy to be at a very amazing location with our Cybernetic Intimacy robots as part of the 34th Poletnemu lutkovnemu pristanu- the international puppet festival of Maribor. The former Minorite Church is the perfect space to experience the 15 channel directional sound artwork and the unfolding of this cybernetic lifeform. 

Opening: Wednesday, August 23, at 7 p.m. at Minorite Church (Vojašniški trg 1, Maribor).

Opening times: Thursday, August 24 and Friday, August 25, between 4 and 6 p.m., Saturday, August 26, between 9 and 11 a.m. Sunday, August 27, between 9 and 11 a.m. and 4 and 6 p.m.

We are very grateful to the puppet theatre and the konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art and especially Miha Horvat for this amazing experience!

Photo credits:  Ramaida Osim

 

The project is developed within the framework of konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.

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Empathy Swarm, Robot Psychology, Workshop |

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konS workshops with Empathy Swarm Pop-Up version

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.

Empathy Swarm, Exhibition |

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BioMedia exhibition at ZKM

We are very proud to announce that our Empathy Swarm is taking part in the »BioMedia« exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe!

Empathy Swarm just fits in perfectly into »BioMedia – The Age of Media with Life-like Behavior«

Who or what defines on what is alive and what is intelligent? Can artificial forms of life be empathetic? How does cooperation of human beings and artificial agents look like? What ethical questions arise? The exhibition »BioMedia« invites visitors to learn about and discuss possible forms of cohabitation between organic and artificial forms of life.

from Biomedia webpage

Dates: Sat, 04.12.2021 – Sun, 28.08.2022

We developed a new generation of robots for this exhibition with more dynamic movements and 2 days battery life! We are very thankful to our sponsors BTG Elektronik and Eurocircuits for their support!

Thanks also to the Intelligent Musem Residency at ZKM where we worked on the intelligence of our lifeform!

Our swarm is looking forward to your visit!

Photo credits: Keyvisual from exhibition page © Katrin Hochschuh und Adam Donovan, Visual: The Rodina

Funded by the Digital Culture Programme of the German Federal Cultural Foundation.

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

The work is developed in the framework of the “Intelligent Museum Residency” at ZKM and Deutsches Museum.

The new FOC motor control PCBs are kindly assembled by BTG Elektronik and produced by Eurocircuits.

Curious Tautophone, Exhibition, Projection, Sound |

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Curious Tautophone goes to biennale ‘Art for the Future’ in Moscow

Curious Tautophone – Tensor Field Ontology just came back from Australia in time to travel to Moscow!

We are excited to present our Tautophone at the First International Biennale ‘Art For The Future’ in Moscow at MAMM, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow.

The Biennale will present art projects that use the latest technologies of Industry 4.0 (neural networks, robotics, 3D animation, VR, augmented reality, 3D printers) and reflect the changes that these technologies bring to the life of every person and society.

Dates: 22 December 2021 to March 2022

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Empathy Swarm, Exhibition, Festival |

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27th MFRU International Festival of Computer Arts

As part of our kons project “Empathy Swarm Orchestra – Cybernetic Intimacy” we presented a video of Empathy Swarm in the 27th MFRU International Festival of Computer Arts in Maribor, Slovenia. From 8th till 26th October, videos of artworks in shop windows all over the city were creating a Covid conform exhibition.

Photo credits: Mitja Lorenčič.

 

The project is developed within the framework of konS ≡ Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art.

Dance, Empathy Swarm, Event, Interactive |

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Deutsches Museum Nürnberg – Opening with Empathy Swarm Show

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

Empathy Swarm, Exhibition, Online, Performance, Telehabitats |

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Ars Electronica EMAP Garden with Empathy Swarm Telehabitats

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.

Directional Speakers, Performance, Psychophysics Machines, Residency, Sound, Talk |

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Psychophysics Forest at Symposion Lindabrunn

Entfernte Erkundungen – Distant explorations is the theme of the next soundart festival at Symposion Lindabrunn. During our micro-residency, we explore the surrounding quarry and forest and inhabit it with a number of sound generating robots that question our audio perceptual engine. While the audience can roam (apparently) freely through the forest, they will experience an intangible layer of distances, directions, invisible barriers and guides created through the psychophysics machines reflecting the unnatural nature of social distance posed upon us through the Covid pandemic.

04.09.21 Psychophysics Forest – Exhibition walks

05.09.21 Talk

We are looking forward and thanks for the invitation to Noid and Symposion Lindabrunn!

Thanks to the stipend program for artists of North Rhine-Westphalia to support our directional speaker installation!

The project is supported by Stipendienprogramm NRW für Künstler*innen.

Empathy Swarm, Interview, Online, Reinforcement_Learning, Residency |

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ZKM’s LIVESTREAM: Developing Empathy Swarm – Reward and Punish

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.

Empathy Swarm, Reinforcement_Learning, Residency |

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ZKM – Intelligent Museum Residency

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.

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Empathy Swarm, Interactive, Online, Online Interaction, Performance, Telehabitats |

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Impressions of Telehabitats @ Werkleitz Festival …move to

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.

 

Empathy Swarm, Events, Performance, Telehabitats |

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Move to… Empathy Swarm – Telehabitats @ Werkleitz Festival 2021

We are happy to be part of the grand finale of EMAP/EMARE at werkleitz with our Empathy Swarm!

Due to the Covid pandemic, the final group show with all the artists could not happen as a great meet-up, so we are happy to have Empathy Swarm – Telehabitats ready to be online during the festival dates.

Werkleitz Festival 2021 – move to… bodydata spheres will take place the following weekend! Have a  look at the fantastic program!

Empathy Swarm will be inhabiting their Telehabitats:

Friday 02.07.21 18:00 – 21:30

Saturday 03.07.21 19:30 – 23:00

Sunday 04.07.21 13:00 – 16:30

Come online or see the hybrid installation at Halle!

 

Thanks to werkleitz for this great collaboration! And it is great to be part of EMAP / EMARE!

Also 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 as part of “Telehabitats”.

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Empathy Swarm, Online, Performance, Telehabitats |

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Telehabitats – Empathy Swarm

Telerobotics as a form of social interaction

Our interactive online platform as answer to the Covid pandemic is online! Wait for updates when our robots are online for you!

As designers and inventors of participatory robot projects in which the relationship between man and machine(s) is researched, the interactive component and contact with other people play a major role. In times of self-isolation and social distance, direct contact takes place only rarely, if at all. We investigate online interaction which digitally links physical spaces, people and our Empathy Swarm. Other robots will soon inhabit the Telehabitats too 🙂
Check out our Telehabitats in which you can collectively experience a different physical space through the robotic avatars.

Thanks for support from the stipend program for artists of North Rhine-Westphalia!

The project is supported by Stipendienprogramm NRW für Künstler*innen as part of “Telehabitats”.

Empathy Swarm, Interactive, Online, Performance, Sound |

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Cyborg Futures – Performance Documentation

Documentation of the live performance Empathy Swarm Remote Memory  – Telerobotics for Social Interaction as a Symbiotic Reminiscence of Human-Machine Cohabitation –  (click on ‘Watch Performance’) as part of IMPAKT’s online exhibition Cyborg Futures – Who doesn’t want to live forever? While the exhibition is still online, you should check it out!

The interactions of the swarm were generating a live sound track, which the audience could influence, so don’t forget to switch on the sound!

The project is supported by Stipendienprogramm NRW für Künstler*innen as part of “Telehabitats”.