1st Edition

Cultural Technologies Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts

Edited By Yuji Sone, Richard Savery Copyright 2025
216 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural Technologies: Robots and Artificial Intelligence in the Performing Arts presents a diverse range of perspectives from leading scholars and artists on contemporary performing arts practices that engage with robotic and AI (artificial intelligence) technologies. In Part One, "Robot/AI Cultures and Performing Arts Practices," contributors discuss how cultural understandings of robots... Read more

PART ONE: Robot/AI Cultures and Performing Arts Practices
1. Introduction: New conversations across the Performing Arts
Yuji Sone

2. I am Going to Turn into Peter: Glitching Human-Robot interactions
Yaron Shyldkrot

3. Medusai: A Multimodal Large Scale Robotic Musician
Amit Rogel, Jiahe Qian, Ripken Walker, Nicollete Cash, Emily Liu. Hope Phan, Hannah Schlisky, Tristan Al-Haddad and Gil Weinberg

4. Roboethics and Care in 2032 SMART-FAMILY
Marina Hanganu

5. Choreographing the Future: AI, Dance, and Cultural Transformation
Tanvi Raghuram, Kohinoor M. Darda and Emily S. Cross

6. Keiichiro Shibuya’s Android Opera: The Theatrics of Exoticism
Yuji Sone

PART TWO: Performing Arts Cultures and Robots/AI Developments
7. Chikamatsu, Mori, and the Uncanny Valley
Karl F. MacDorman

8. Towards Embodied AI: Design Approaches for Robots in Opera
Elizabeth Jochum, Tim Hopkins, Chris Kiefer and Evelyn Ficarra

9. What Does it Mean? On Platform-Invariant "Body-Language" Dictionaries
Amy LaViers

10. Questions of Voice in AI Music.
Denis Crowdy and James Leach

11. What Do I Say? Public Interactions with a Drumming and Rapping Robot
Richard Savery, Trinity Melder and Melissa Hill

12. A.I. Anne: Advocacy, Empathy, and Creative Collaborations between Artists and Generative A.I.
Janet Biggs

Biography

Dr. Yuji Sone is a senior lecturer in the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature at Macquarie University, Australia. His research has focused on the cross-disciplinary conditions of technologised performance.

Dr. Richard Savery is a developer of AI and robotics, using music and creativity as a medium to programme better interactions, understandings, and models. He is currently a research fellow at Macquarie University, Australia, developing new robotic musicians. His current research focuses on the creation of a new drumming and rapping robot, as well as robots painting to music and musical captcha.