ucsd-et4a

Week 8 - Once More with Feeling(s)

Voigt-Kampff test from Bladerunner Fandom Wiki

Agenda

• Introduce Project 2
• Inspirations
  • Affective Machines
  • Healing Machines
  • Responsive Environments (slides)
  • “Smart” Things, “Smart” Environments
• Discussion and work time
• Small Group Check-In

Homework

• Final Project Work
• HW Submit an idea for final project to Canvas by Friday, November 22 end of day.

References

Affective Machines

Sun Yuan and Peng Yu Can’t Help Myself (2016)

• affect, from dictionary.com
• affective computing, from wikipedia.org
• social robots, from wikipedia.org

Affective and Social Computing Literature

• Rosalind Picard “Affective Computing” MIT Technical Report 1995 https://vismod.media.mit.edu/pub/tech-reports/TR-321.pdf
• Cynthia Breazeal. 2003. Emotion and sociable humanoid robots. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 59, 1: 119–155. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1071-5819(03)00018-1

  Affective Machines

• Flatcat https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bakiwi/flatcat
• Paro therapeutic robot http://www.parorobots.com/
• Jibo https://robotsguide.com/robots/jibo (2023)
  • Cynthia Brezeal’s robot
• RUBI https://rubi.ucsd.edu/ (2001-2009)
• Diego San https://www.hansonrobotics.com/diego-san/ (2013)
• M.Gannon Personable Robotics [REF]
  • Mimus (2016)
  • Manus (2019)
  • Other Natures (2022)
  • https://www.dezeen.com/2023/07/17/robots-madeline-gannon-ai-aitopia/
  • https://medium.com/google-empathy-lab/conversations-with-the-lab-madeline-gannon-b475543fe673
• affectiva https://www.affectiva.com/
• Woebot https://woebothealth.com/
• Voight-Kampff Test
  • fandom wiki https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test
  • Bladerunner excerpt, Voiggt-Kampf Test https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Umc9ezAyJv0

Tragic Machines

#tragedy #pathos #tragicmachines #machines

• Sun Yuan and Peng Yu Can’t Help Myself (2016)
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS4Bpr2BgnE
• Thijs Rikers
  • Suicide Machine Sand (2013)
  • Suicide Machine Saw (2013)
  • N. Ingraham Artist’s ‘suicide’ machines are designed to slowly destroy themselves (2013)

Healing Machines

Lisa Korpos, Interspecies Practice: Community Bee Clinic http://www.lisakorpos.com/p/community-bee-clinic.html

#healing #machines #health #wellbeing

• Kellie Dobson
  • Blendie (2003-04) https://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie/
  • Screambody (1998-04) https://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/screambody/
  • Machine Therapy (2002-) https://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/machinetherapy/
  • Machine Therapy Dissertation (2007) https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44329
  • Kelly E. (Kelly Elizabeth) Dobson. 2007. Machine therapy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved September 10, 2023 from https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44329

Additional References:

• Pratt et. al, Robots and care of the ageing self: An emerging economy of loneliness https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X231172199 #cognition

#healing #machines

• Allison Kudla Capacity For Urban Eden - Human Error (2010)

Complete Healing Machines

• Kelly E. (Kelly Elizabeth) Dobson. 2007. Machine therapy. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Retrieved September 10, 2023 from https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/44329

Projects

• Healing Earth / civilization
  •  StudioThinkingHand link
    • What heals - imagining futures by remembering and connecting to non-human species; bringing to light “deep time”
    • Projects: Deep Time, Habitats
  • Lucy McCrae - https://www.lucymcrae.net/home
    • What heals - machines/devices that prepare us for future
    • Projects - compression cradle, swallowable perfume (nicely scented sweat) 
  • Tara Transitory link
    • What heals - noise machine performance that disrupts “the false narrative of unity pervasive in Western concepts of gender”
  • Fairphone - “The phone that cares for people and planet”;
    • What heals - responsible material sourcing, sustainable electronics
  • Creative Coding assignment to “take apart an old electronics device and repurpose/reconstruct it into a new form”
    • What heals - questioning the digital
• Healing Cancer / disease 
  • What heals? - minerals, magnetic fields, electric currents (tinfoil, masking tape, plastic beads, vials of chemicals from pharmacist, painted wood, christmas ornaments)
  • https://www.pbs.org/video/pbs-emery-blagdon-and-his-healing-machine/
  • https://spacesarchives.org/explore/search-the-online-collection/the-healing-machines/

• Emery Blagdon and His Healing Machines (Nebraska sandhills artist) 

• Healing personal history x local culture 
  • What heals - light; creating; the process of transforming your own environment; the practice of creating community
  • Projects - VJ quilt, VJ window

• Gretchen Larsen - https://gretch.in/

• Machine Therapy - healing people and healing machines(?); healing human machine relationships
  • Kellie Dobson
    • What heals - interactions that embrace the experiential/phenomenological “side effects” of technology—(i.e. the noise, the vibration) that acknowledge both human and machine as embodied agents; 
    • Projects:
    • Blendie (2003-04) https://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/blendie/
      • what heals: cathartic expression, embodied connection with machine
    • Screambody (1998-04) https://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/screambody/
      • what heals: making space for cathartic expression;
    • Machine Therapy (2002-) https://web.media.mit.edu/~monster/machinetherapy/
• Healing loss
  • What heals: sustained fictional immersion; a bubble outside of time; self-deception?
  • Joshua Barbeau’s Jessica Project (2021) https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/jessica-simulation-artificial-intelligence/
    • what heals: de-stigmatization, lessening the pain of loss; dwelling in the memory;
    • Project December https://projectdecember.net/
    • https://projectdecember.net/terminalSSL/
  • Eugena Kudya’s replication of her friend Roman Mazurenko with Luka (2017) https://www.theverge.com/a/luka-artificial-intelligence-memorial-roman-mazurenko-bot (now replika.ai)
    • what heals: dwelling in the material traces, “data” of the lost one; immersion;
  • Prof. Twomey’s Megahal Grandmommy (2005) https://roberttwomey.com/megahal-grandmommy/
    • what heals: rehearsal against loss; therapeutic sharing

• Healing personal and environmental (and technological) health

• What heals: prescriptions for environmental aches and pains; fostering beneficial mutualism (Human Nature Technology triad);

• Natalie Jeremijenko

• xClinic - Environmental Health Clinic http://www.carbonarts.org/people/natalie-jeremjenko/
  • AgBags - Declaration of Interdependence (2013) https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/presence-of-plants-facade
  • Amphibious Architecture - What does the derwent want?: http://www.carbonarts.org/projects/amphibious-architecture-what-does-the-derwent-want/
    • what heals: decentering the human; focused attention on aquatic ecosystems; highlighting our interdependence.
  • Melbourne Mussel Choir: http://www.carbonarts.org/projects/melbourne-mussel-choir/
    • what heals: decentering the human; recognizing others (animals, plants) have needs, wants, desires; recognizing nature has optimized forces/processes for environmental remediation
  • BIT Suicide Box: https://archive.transmediale.de/content/suicide-box
• Joseph Beuys
  • 7000 Oaks https://diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/joseph-beuys-7000-oaks/
  • https://philbartonartist.c4cp.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/10/200130-Research-Paper-Submitted-1-Mb-Copy.pdf
  • More on Beuys https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/jan/30/fat-felt-fall-earth-making-and-myths-joseph-beuys
• Lisa Korpos, Interspecies Practice: Community Bee Clinic http://www.lisakorpos.com/p/community-bee-clinic.html

Responsive Environments

Examples in Google Slides