Update: Diedra Krieger was primary organizer of the exhibit, not curator. The names of other collaborators have been added. (12/13/22, 3:10 p.m.)
If you don’t look close enough, you might not even notice that the robots at “Experiments in Robotic Gestures” are moving. Each piece shifts so subtly that you need to stand still and focus on the piece to see it.
The artists behind these bots aim to challenge some of the stereotypes associated with tech and bridge the industry gap between art and engineering.
The exhibit currently being hosted by the University City Arts League is the culminating project of the Robotics Art Residency at the GRASP Lab at Penn Engineering and the Weitzman School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania. Three artists were chosen for monthlong residencies where they collaborated with Ph.D. students at GRASP to put together robotic art…
