Me with my poster after presenting my lightning talk at the Artificial Nature Symposium at The House of Music in Aalborg, Denmark. This inspiring event was orchestrated by Elizabeth Jochum and life science/robotics artist Cody Lukas.
My talk focused on my artistic research, where I explore how humans attribute agency and project life onto objects—from ancient ritual artifacts, as studied by Durkheim and Turner, to contemporary social robots and AI agents.
Through my performances, I aim to redefine agency and collaboration within human-machine ecosystems. By activating sensory awareness and imagination, I explore how we can bridge life-as-we-know-it with life-as-it-could-be, envisioning new pathways for collaboration between humanity, AI, and the natural world.
What do you imagine these pathways could look like?
More about ANT: https://www.anthub.dk/
ANT brings together researchers working within the emerging areas of Artificial Life and Complex Systems, aiming to understand and synthesize life-like systems and apply bio-inspired synthetic methods to other science/engineering disciplines, including AI, Robotics, Computer Modelling, Synthetic Biology, Bio-Materials, and Bio-Architecture, among others. Sustainable development of technologically-mediated complex systems is at the core of ANT, and for this discussion, we bring a transdisciplinary group of innovators, boundary-pushing companies, and creatives in the room. The symposium creates opportunities for experts from diverse fields and sectors to come together to further our understanding of how sciences and technologies of Artificial Nature can advance human–society–nature interactions.