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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.
We are very happy to work on our new project “Interconnected” this year as part of the Neue Künste Ruhr / New Arts Ruhr project funding and in collaboration with two fantastic partners: The Academy of Theatre and Digitaliy in Dortmund for development and workshops around the project and Kulturforum Witten for the premiere in February 2026!
We have kicked off the project with a small residency in January at the Academy, felt very welcomed and enjoyed to work with everyone from the team!
> 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.
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.
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
Connect with the Empathy Swarm robots and have a peak live into the swarm’s habitat at the current »BioMedia« exhibition at ZKM Karlsruhe. See visitors interact with the swarm and interact with them through the swarm.
Follow this link to see the swarm as part of the online version of BioMedia. Here you can also discover other online artworks and be guided through the exhbition by an AI called bMEDIA. Or visit the artwork directly.
The swarm is online every Friday – Sunday, 1 p.m. – 6 p.m. CET / CEST
The online version Telehabitats enables visitors to connect virtually with one of the robots in the physical space from home and thus become part of the swarm. The movement of the cursor across the screen sets the path for the movement and it is possible to rotate the robot as well as to increase and decrease the distance to the rest of the swarm. The swarm reacts to the behavior of the connected robot as well as to visitors entering the habitat in the exhibition space at the ZKM.
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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”.
Empathy Swarm as a performative installation. Come and interact with the swarm this Saturday during OSLO NIGHT Basel
The little creatures are curious to meet you and to inhabit a fantastic space at iArt !
Thanks to HEK – Haus der Elektronischen Künste for the invatation!
Looking forward to an exiting night ahead!
Saturday , 26th September, 4 p.m. – 2 a.m
iArt, Freilager-Platz 3, 4142 Münchenstein
Photo credits: Empathy Swarm at WRO 2019 Biennale / HUMAN ASPECT, Wroclaw, Poland, by Natalia Kabanow
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.
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
