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’…

We are delighted to invite you to attend the PhDdefense of Irene Alcubilla Troughton. She will defend her dissertation “Moving Together: A Performings Arts Approach to Human-Robot Interaction Design”. This dissertation tackles an important challenge in human-robot interaction (HRI): how to create meaningful encounters between humans and robots through movement. Traditionally, HRI has focused on…

Innovation:Lab’s prototype event CTRL+ALT+PLAY is returning! This year, on November 30th, De Paardenkathedraal, De Berenkuil, and De Snijzaal in Utrecht-Oost (Hoefijzerstraat) will once again be the platforms for technology, performing arts, and science. As Theaterkrant wrote last year: “CTRL+ALT+PLAY leaves you hungry and curious for even more space, even more depth.” Innovation:Lab is one of…

Children’s robot concert by Bram Ellens and Concertgebouw Robot artist Bram Ellens will stage the children’s concert ‘Robot van de Rommelmarkt’ (the recycled robot), a short story written by bestselling author Tonke Dragt, at Concertgebouw in January 2025. Child x robot The story (from 1971) takes place in the future. Every child is dependent on…