Nov 30, 2023
Sydney Skybetter sits down with choreorobotics innovator, Dr. Catie Cuan. They discuss her personal and professional trajectory, and try to answer the question: why dance with a robot?
About Catie:
An engineer, researcher, and artist, Dr. Catie Cuan is a pioneer in
the nascent field of ‘choreorobotics’ and works at...
Nov 28, 2023
Sydney Skybetter gives us an inside look into his research into chorerobotics; the overlap of choreography and robotic motion planning. He and the CRCI team ask questions about the risks and the implications of the work, and what it means to make a robot do the mashed potato.
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Nov 17, 2023
Sydney Skybetter and producer Kamal Sinclair chat
about the intersection of the cultural sector, emerging
technologies, and the vintage hardware that shaped their
childhoods. Are we all complicit in these complex cultural systems?
Oh, and also, can we please bring back the Filofax?
About Kamal:
Kamal Sinclair supports...
Nov 16, 2023
Sydney Skybetter interviews John Underkoffler, the Science and Technology Advisor for the 2002 movie Minority Report. We talk about how the infamous computer gesture scene that made John famous led to the founding of Oblong Industries, a company that tried to make Minority Report’s speculative interfaces a reality.
Nov 14, 2023
Kate Gow, CRCI’s archivist and web designer, sits down with host Sydney Skybetter to discuss historical intersections of dance and technology. Turns out that the weird history of dancers catching on fire, Degas, and the Nazis have a lot to do with the dance of the future.
About Kate:
Kate Gow is an archivist and...