Tamari, Tomoko. 2024. 'The significance of the body in human-machine collaboration and artistic practices ‘Embodiment and Creativity’'. In: Embodied Agents in Contemporary Visual Art: How Robots and AI could Influence Creativity (EACVA). Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 13 - 14 May 2025. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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The paper attempts to examine the implications and influences of computer generative images in artistic practices, particularly focusing on collaboration between a drawing robot and an artist. Although, there has been much research on human-computer interaction, and digital creative practices in computer science and engineering, cognitive neuroscience, psychology and philosophy, there is little research on focusing the material body, since most of software can be seen as disembodied. In this light, emphasizing on the significance of the material body, the paper focuses on the practical, psychological, and social interactions between a robot (which ‘has’ a body) and humans (artists and programmers) and explores the ‘(dis) embodied process’ of machine (robot) and human artistic collaborative practices through examining the schemes of ‘intersubjective relations’ between 1) programmer and artist, and ‘inter-subject and object relations’ between 2) machine (robot) and programmer, 3) machine (robot) and artist. The paper also discusses ‘a complex the self and the other relationship’ between machine (robot) and an artist, applying Jacques Lacan’s notion, the extimate, which implies that a customized drawing robot (which is programmed to move like an artist) can be both intimate and foreign, embedded and intrusive and, alien and familiar for an artist.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	algorithms, artificial intelligence, body, affect, art, embodied knowledge, machine
Related URLs:	https://eacva.org/
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Institute for Cultural and Creative Entrepreneurship (ICCE)
Dates:	Date Event May 2024 Completed
Event Location:	Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
Date range:	13 - 14 May 2025
Item ID:	38547
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2025 13:19
Last Modified:	05 Mar 2025 13:19
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/38547

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