disarming - attempts of re-framing AI-driven industrial robotic arms
29. Mai 2025 Kunstuniversität Linz, Domgasse 1, Audimax
Industrial robotics and robotic-relevant machine learning come with pre-inscribed conceptions of human-technology relations, definitions of intelligence, understandings 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 practice-based PhD project explores attempts of widening the thinking with industrial robotic arms through xenomorphosic bodily experienceable encounters in semi-public spaces. As one performative process of the project, the detached robotic arm Agilus learned and unlearned locomotion on a gym mat in relation to its embedded virtual concept of its mechanical body and surrounding space during the PhD colloquium. Aiming for strategies to increase the distance from the starting point, resulting in glitches of virtual success and physical struggle, as well as vice versa.
