As they come to the end of their fellowships, our Automation Fellows are starting to share their exciting new knowledge with the world. Here’s how they have been sharing all the brilliant things they’ve been working on, and how you can access them:
- Clay artefacts 3D printed in collaboration with Tom Duggan (Industry Fellow) were included in the “Alchemy in Art” exhibition at Tate St Ives. You can read more here: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-st-ives/exhibition/thomas-duggan-alchemy-art
- “Negotiated matter: A robotic approach to craft-driven innovation” Architectural Science Review (Special Issue: Means, Methods and Machines in Architecture). Research also supported by EPSRC Grant “Computing Craft” (Industrial Systems in the Digital Age).
- Upcoming x2-3 academic publications on the topic of robotic fabrication. Academic publications are available through the standard publication repositories at the University of Plymouth
- Alejandro’s research work has fed the development of teaching content for his own MA/MSc Integrated Design course across a range of Modules, as well as upcoming guest lectures at the BA Architecture course at the University of Plymouth, and the MArch Architecture and Design course at The Bartlett, UCL.
- Anna’s research was shared at 4th International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards: Artificial Intelligence, Robots and Ethics – (London South Bank University, London, United Kingdom, 29 Jul 2019 – 30 Jul 2019,https://www.icres2019.org/). You can read her research at the conference proceedings.
- Preliminary findings were presented at the Cambridge Wireless International Conference (CWIC) 2019 during a presentation and panel event.
- Ben spoke on BBC World Service and shared his findings (listen from 12 min 30 sec !)
- You can read more about Ben’s research at the LettUs Grow blog.
- Ben is due to speak at Brunel University’s Robotics society event in November, as well as an industry conference in Prague in December and an event for the Bristol Junior Chamber in the new year, date TBC. (more information soon)
By 2023 there is forecasted to be 8 billion digital voice assistants in use. Currently these systems are embedded with significant race and gender biases, and lacks ethical guidelines for their design. Through Birgitte’s research as an Automation Fellow and her wider work as a technology designer, researcher and artist, she has been exploring the impact of these ‘technologies that talk’ on us and society as a whole.
- She has been sharing her research through a process of activating users of AI technologies through talks, provocations and workshops. You can read more about Birgitte’s work on birgitteaga.com and the Women Reclaiming AI website.
- Check her paper on “Being with “technologies that talk” in the online SWCTN publication ‘Out of the black box’ (coming soon)
- In September Chloe spoke at the London Design Festival at the V&A, on the panel Digital Design, Empathy and Storytelling: Reawakening and building identities using tangible and digital tools.
- You can read Chloe’s Medium blog to keep up to date with her work.
- Published research paper – PhyBox: A Programmable Interface for Physarum Polycephalum-based Memristors in International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
- Accepted book chapter – Sound and Music Biocomputing – in Handbook of Artificial Intelligence for Music – to be published in 2020.
- Look out for Ed’s upcoming research papers ‘Approaches to Implementing Sequential Logic on BioMemristors’ in the Journal of General Systems, and ‘Towards a Biological Light Sensor’, appearing in the next BioSystems.
- Demonstration, talk, and concert at the BEYOND Sm(ART) Artificial and Artistic Intelligence Symposium, Heilbronn, Germany, 27th-29th September – https://www.beyond-festival.com/en/symposium/
- Talk and demonstration currently being organised for EVA Paris, 21-22 November 2019. (Tickets and more information.)
- In October Ellie spoke at the Technology and Anthropology Conference on How should we design conversational Al in order to provide emotional support? You can read her delegate interview here.
- Ellie is working with Birgitte Aga on Women Reclaiming AI. Look out for their upcoming workshops on their website.
- Follow Ellie on Twitter to hear about her workshops and 2020 events.
- Guy will be sharing his progress and research findings at the Beyond Conference, the annual R&D conference for the creative industries. 20-21 November 2019 – Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, UK
- Bath Digital Festival 2019, soft robotic workshop and reactive sculpture.
- In October Joseph spoke at the Anthropology & Technology Conference about automation &programming
- Talk and performance at Music Tech Fest in Sweden. You can read more about Joseph’s performance here.
- Look out for Joe’s soft robotic workshop at Knowle West Media Centre and Kaleider in 2020.
- Mollie was commissioned to write a piece in July 2019 titled ‘Discrete Automation’ on e-flux architecture, a widely read architecture journal online, as part of a series titled ‘Becoming Digital’. You can read it here.
- This piece attracted the organisers of The Conference in Malmo, Sweden, who asked Mollie to give one of 4 keynote lectures to the 1,000+ attendees of the conference in August. You can watch her keynote here.
- The writing and lecture outlines an architectural approach for design production and construction called ‘Discrete Automation’ that radically rethinks architectural design, fabrication and assembly, particularly for the production of housing.
- Patrick has kept a blog throughout his fellowship and you can read his posts here:
- In June 2020 Patrick will be running a seminar presentation and project findings discussion at the Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne Australia.
- He will also be contributing to the book Technology and Society in Digital Transition: Bernard Stiegler’s Media Theory (Routledge, publication expected 2021).
- Read Rachel’s blog ‘Part One: A Beginners Guide to Building Your Own Face Recognition System to Creep Out Your Friends.‘
- Watch out for PART TWO on 30th November!
- Read about Rachel’s ‘Guess Who?‘ workshop at KWMC in October.
- You can look out for Robert’s papers at these conferences in 2020: Design Research For Change, Fabricate, Design Principles and Practices, Design History Society, European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics, International Conference on Engineering Design, IASDR.
- You can read more about Robert’s work and his fellowship on his website.
- Ron’s research on ‘Code as Prosthesis’ is being published in the third issue of the International Journal of Creative Media Research, due to be released this winter.
- Ron is speaking on the Algorithmic Art Panel Debate, at the Royal Cornwall Museum on Tuesday 26th November, 6pm-7pm, as a part of the Algorithmic Art season.
- Rosie has been exploring the idea of how technology contributes and hinders wellbeing, principally through the lens of wearable technology. Through various codesign activities and workshops, Rosie is exploring what people would choose to design and use if they were afforded more control or input into the design of health and wellbeing technologies.
- Rosie will be sharing her findings at an exhibition in Spring/Summer 202o. Follow @SW_CTN and @braveresearch on Twitter to be the first to hear all the details
- You can read Ruby’s blogs for SWCTN here:
- You can look out for Ruby’s artwork in London in February, at the 2020 i-Docs symposium, Glastonbury Festival 2020 (the pier).
- Ruby will be holding workshops at Kaleider and Knowle West Media Centre in 2020; follow @SW_CTN on Twitter to be the first to hear about them.
- Rupert’s research concerns the role and activities of individual makers in the technology spectrum ranging from the handmade to the fully automated. What is the landscape of activity? What barriers and challenges are there for the individual creative? What and where are the opportunities?
- Rupert is exhibiting at the ExIST STEAMM event at Exeter College in December 2019 where he will show early prototypes of his chat pot and research touch experiments.
- He will share progress of his work through social media (Twitter, Instagram, FB) through the @rampceramics handle.
- Take a look at Rupert’s website for more information on his projects, shop, and upcoming workshops in 2020.
- Tariq has been maintaining two blogs during his fellowship, detailing his work and research:
- The Calculus of Emotion is his main blog for general readers.
- Make Your Own Algorithmic Art contains technical and code detail.
- Tariq has also run talks and tutorials based on what he has learned, and on some of the tools he has been using:
- London talk (links to a video too)
- Cornwall tutorial.
- Tariq has also been working with the Royal Cornwall Museum to organise a 2.5 month Algorithmic Art Season, with a programme that covers not just exhibits but also talks, tutorials, performances and a panel debate.
- Look out for Tariq’s end-of-research talk in London and Cornwall in March/April 2020, as well as his book on GANs, due to be published through Amazon in 2020.
- Tom has been working on automated robotic additive printing, developing a system in collaboration with KUKA robotics, IMERYS and Plymouth University to build and optimise an additive printing process of sustainable, locally sourced materials.
- Thomas’s work was exhibited at Tate St Ives from the 19th of October – 3rd of November, with a talk from the artist on the 3rd of October. You can see more here.
- Tom will be publishing further insights work on his website.
- “Efficient convolutional hierarchical autoencoder for human motion prediction”, is accepted by the journal of The Visual Computer. 2019 Jun 1 with high scores. Now this work is available online and related videos and presentations are given on the conference of Computer Graphics International (CGI). The Video of this work is available. Yanran is the first author of this work and leads this research. (In the attachment)
- “Densely connected GCN model for motion prediction”, is another model addressed the tackled problem in motion prediction research so far. This work is accepted by journal Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds. The related presentations and videos will be coming out in October on CASA 2020 conference soon. Yanran is the first author of this work and leads this research.
- ” Peeking into occluded joints: A novel framework for crowd pose estimation” is a cooperated work with Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data. This work is accepted by the top-level conference in computer vision—-In Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). The project page can be view on “https://lingtengqiu.github.io/2020/03/22/OPEC-Net/“. The presentations and videos are given out on ECCV conference. (In the attachments)
- Yanran is invited to present her research work (1.5 hour) in one of the best research institution Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data. More than 100 attendees are joined.
- Workshops and presentations of yanran’s research are coming soon in Bournemouth University or online.