“Sounding Softness and the (Artificial) Subject” presented by Jørgensen and Bering
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Session Title:
- Robots – Expanded Corporalities (short papers)
Presentation Title:
- Sounding Softness and the (Artificial) Subject
Presentation Subtheme:
- Symbiotic Individuations
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Abstract:
The paper discusses the authors’ robotic artwork SONŌ (2019-), its artistic motivations, the artistic research practice underlying its development, and its technical realization. SONŌ is a soft robotic installation that interrogates the interconnections of soft materiality, sound, and subjectivity. It features a sessile soft artificial entity only capable of expansive movement, which is ceaselessly sounding itself and various environments using real-time generated audio.
