Institute of ArchitectureAs part of the FWF project Co-Corporeality panel with Yasaman Sheri, Matthew Pelowski and Robert
Trappl.
Yasaman Sheri
Design Director, Principle
Investigator, Serpentine Galleries R&D
Synthetic Ecologies Lab, Design of sensing and living interfaces, machine
perception, art and life sciences
Matthew Pelowski
University of Vienna,
Faculty of Psychology. Empirical visual aesthetics, perception, empathy, art.
Robert Trappl
Austrian
Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence. Human cognition, ethical systems.
In this conversation
the Co-corporeality team will discuss empathy, ethics & ways of knowing in embodied and extended sensing with Yasaman
Sheri, Design Researcher & Principal Investigator at the Serpentine Galleries; Dr. Matthew Pelowski, psychologist, University
of Vienna and Prof. Robert Trappl, head of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence & Professor of
Medical Cybernetics and AI, University of Vienna.
The Co-Corporeality project is attempting
to establish an interaction between a human and a living material in order to develop a responsive environment that interacts,
learns, grows and decays in relation to human presence and behaviour. Interaction and response occur across different time
scales, translated for human understanding by impacting the senses: vision, olfactory. The asynchronous interactions between
human, AI and bacteria are perceived through changes in colour, smell, in changing movement and growth. These networked actors
create an experimental sensing environment stimulated by human emotion, perception and reaction. This conversation will consider
the rational and non-rational interactions, simulations and environments created between the machines, microbes and humans
of Co-Corporeality.