“Sounding Softness and the (Artificial) Subject” presented by Jørgensen and Bering

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  • 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.


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