We are thrilled to announce that Prof. John McCormick (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne), visiting the Netherlands in May, is willing to give a lecture on his research. Interested to join? Register now by sending an email to j.fraune@uu.nl! John McCormick is a technology- based artist and researcher with a major interest in human movement. John has collaborated…

How can the knowledge embodied in Anouk van Dijk’s Countertechnique help humans and robots to share the same space without collisions?We would like to invite you to the workshop Countertechnique for Engineers on Monday 11 May, where we will explore this together with Anouk van Dijk (dancer, choreographer and founder of the Countertechnique), Wilbert Tabone…

“How will you miss me when I’m gone?” What remains of a person after death? And what happens when technology becomes a means to fill that void? In Roman & ELIZA, Ulrike Quade Company explores technology as a tool for grief, how artificial intelligence feeds our profound desire for human connection. The performance is inspired…

On Friday 6 February, Dramaturgy for Devices and Robotstories | Expanding Narratives will be organizing a collaborative exploration of Prompts & Theater. With the advent of LLMs, the concept of “prompt” has entered the HRI vocabulary. However, in the theater domain, formulas and systems resembling what a prompt might be for AI have been in

How will we live together with robots? At the Robotic Relations symposium, researchers, artists, makers, and audiences come together in conversation, to talk about… …how robots become an extension of human creativity;…if we consider robots as living beings;…and what happens when we encounter robots in physical space.  Traditionally, technology was seen as an object, a…

The Centre for Transformative Media Technologies (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) invites you to attend a presentation by  Professor Maaike Bleeker – Utrecht University  “In this presentation, I will share experiences from several years of collaboration in which we brought together expertise from the arts and theatre, robotics, and academic research and invited guests with…

This Lorentz workshop explores how a performative lens can help roboticists, healthcare professionals, designers, and other academics and practitioners better understand the complexities of integrating robotics into care practices. A performative perspective approaches technology as inherently relational and frames robot capacities as expressions manifested through their appearance, motion, and behaviour within specific contexts of use,…

We invite you to the closing events of our research project, Acting Like a Robot: Theater as Testbed for the Robot Revolution, on January 30 and 31, 2025, in De Paardenkathedraal in Utrecht. In this special collaboration of Utrecht University, Ulrike Quade Company, VU Amsterdam, HKU, and SPRING Performing Arts Festival, we have spent the…

On the impact of technology on grieving On 13 December, Ulrike Quade Company invites you to an inspiring evening at Frascati Amsterdam, where two rooms will be filled with innovative programmes exploring the future of technology and theatre. How does technology influence our grieving process and the way we cherish memories? At a time when…

A multimedia show about artificial intelligence, robotics and biotechnology ‘The Artificial Girlfriend’ is a unique and innovative musical piece rooted in Kazuo Ishiguro’s book ‘Klara and the Sun’. This multimedia performance combines music with AI-generated images and an AI-controlled narrator, resulting in an immersive experience for the audience. The story of ‘Klara and the Sun’…