Steph Hutchison, Jonathan Roberts and Dasun Gunasinghe
Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing Hub
Artist Statement
SWISH is a collaborative performance between humans and an industrial robot arm. The performance utilises basketball skills, drills and plays as improvisational scores for the human dancers and robot arm to play within. SWISH draws on previous research into how humans might predict the intentions/movement of their robot collaborator. Can you read the play?
About the artists
Hutchison, Roberts and Gunasinghe are a collaborative team in the field of creative and performance robotics. As a team they create works drawing on dance and robotics in interactive performance contexts. Collectively their art-research creative practice extends human-robot relationships through experimentation with choreographic and improvisational methods. Roberts is a Professor in Robotics within the School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics at Queensland University of Technology, and the Director of the Australian Cobotics Centre and a Technical Director of the Advanced Robotics for Manufacturing, Chief Investigator at the QUT Centre for Robotics, and an Associate Investigator at QUT’s Centre for Biomedical Technologies. Hutchison is a Senior Lecture and Study Area Coordinator for Dance at Queensland University of Technology, and Associate Investigator of the Australian Cobotics Centre.
Credits: Steph Hutchison, Jonathan Roberts, Dasun Gunasinghe and Dancers