Emanuel GollobFruitful Friction - Widening the Thinking With Industrial Robotic Arms
Industrial robotics, robotic-relevant machine learning, and their surrounding social bodies come with pre-inscribed conceptions of human-technology relations, definitions of intelligence, understanding of cognition, and a particular perspective on what it means to be efficient. Inscriptions that, besides being up for debate, more or less explicitly organize our way of intra-acting with these technicalities and, by doing so, also limit potential creative genesis.
Asking how AI-driven industrial robotic arms can be reframed as portals for broader creative genesis, this PhD project explores attempts of widening the thinking with industrial robotic arms through xenomorphosic bodily experienceable encounters in semi-public spaces.
Supervision
Johannes Braumann
Short Bio
Emanuel Gollob (AT) (b. 1991) is an artist and researcher investigating today’s relationships between humans, artificial intelligence and robots with the goal of making alternative ones bodily experienceable. In parallel, his work traces the change in human perception in relation to digitalization. Gollob graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. From 2020 to 2021, he was an artist in residence at MindSpaces, an EU research project within the STARTS initiative framework. Since 2020, he has been a PhD candidate and researcher at the University of Arts Linz with a research focus on the performativity in human-robot encounters. In 2023, he was a guest artist at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe and the European Media Art Platf(EMAP). Gollob’s work has been exhibited at various international institutions and conferences, including the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, Washington DC; Science Gallery Melbourne; Art Science Museum Singapore and HEK Basel.