Experiencing the Alterity of Robots
Organized by the department of DIGITAL ARTS/Ruth Schnell
Louis-Demers (media artist, Canada/Singapore) talks about his artistic work, reports on experiences with staging interactions between human and machines, and addresses embodied experiences and co-presence of the robotic agent. „We share and identify to biological, social and cultural experiences with performers on the stage. Phenomenologists and theatre theorists claim that these experiences are vastly grounded in the experiential body. What happens when we inject artificial constructions not only on the stage but also in tacitly human social scenarios?“
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Louis-Philippe Demers combines several profiles: Artist, Freelance Designer, Professor, Researcher and Entrepreneur. He is a multidisciplinary artist using hybrid and trans-disciplinary approaches.
He worked on the conception and production of several large-scale interactive robotic installations,
His works have been primed with several prizes and featured at major international festivals and venues such as Theatre de la Ville, Lille 2004, Expo 1992, Expo 2000, Sonambiente, ISEA, SIGGRAPH and Sonar. He received six mentions and a distinction at the prestigious Prix Ars Electronica, the prize for Interactive Lighting at Lightforms 98, jury selections at the Japan Media Art Festival 2010 and 2014, the first prize of artificial life Vida 2.0 and special mentions at Vida 12.0 and 15.0. Devolution, received seven prizes including the Ruby Innovation award in South Australia, Outstanding Performance from Australian Dance Awards and two Helpmann Awards for Best New Show and Best Lighting Design.
Louis- Philippe Demers academic career spans over two decades. He was a Full Professor of Digital Media and Exhibit Design at the Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Karlsruhe, the academic institution affiliated to the world renowned ZKM (Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnologie). He was Professor of Creative Innovation and Director of the Creative Lab at the School of Creative Practice of the Queensland University of Technology. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) . He recently completed a practice based Ph.D. surrounding issues about machines as performers.