The Emergence of Consciousness
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- SENSORIUM: Interdisciplinary Practices of Embodiment and Technology
Presentation Title:
- The Emergence of Consciousness
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Panel: SENSORIUM: Interdisciplinary Practices of Embodiment and Technology
The Emergence of Consciousness project uses performance art and digital technology in order to investigate the scientific study of consciousness and the possibilities of developing ‘machine consciousness’. The project is inspired by perspectives of embodiment as characterized by Francisco Varela, Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch and situatedness as applied to evolutionary robotics by Rodney Brooks. Dumitriu, artist in residence in the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics at The University of Sussex, works with sensory and movement deprivation (e.g. blindfolds, physical restraints etc.) and augmentation, in an attempt to take on the role of a robotic agent herself and try to understand what it feels like to be a robot.