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Are humans ready to become digital? BBC Click feature on Robots & Avatars

26/04/2012 - 11:31

“Technology is bringing the virtual and real world closer together. The Robots and Avatars exhibition explores how people will work and play with new representational forms of themselves and others in virtual and physical life in the next 10 to 15 years. Spencer Kelly went to the exhibition to get a vision of the future.” [...]

Teleport yourself in Visions of Our Communal Dreams!

21/04/2012 - 06:01

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Visions of Our Communal Dreams is a beautiful new media art installation blending virtual, physical and networked environments that explores issues of hybridity, embodiment and collective creativity in the Digital Age. You can now join Visions of our Communal Dreams online, interact and play with other avatars, by following these instructionsVOCD_virtual-participation-guide_v1.0_web copy

Robots & Avatars on BBC Click this week end

18/04/2012 - 16:20

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We are very happy to announce that Robots and Avatars Exhibition and a special interview with Ghislaine Boddington on Telepresence will be broadcast THIS WEEKEND 21st / 22nd April on BBC Click. The programme will air at 11.30 Sat and Sun on BBC News Channel and at several other time during these days. Also a [...]

Robots and Avatars Exhibition in the Media

05/04/2012 - 11:27

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We’re very pleased with the onward Press Coverage of the Robots and Avatars Exhibition at FACT in the media and we would like to share some juicy bits with you! “It’s art that’s interactive and immersive.” The Guardian “Blurring the lines between reality and the virtual world, the exhibit examines our reliance on technology and [...]

Robots and Avatars opens at FACT!

22/03/2012 - 18:20

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The Robots and Avatars Exhibition at FACT is officially open. And open it is for everyone: young and old, technology expert and art lover, shy and enthusiastic. The public has taken over the galleries and made this Exhibition truly their own by becoming part of it, interacting and playing with it. It was a great [...]

Robots & Avatars Champion Noel Sharkey @ FACT for the Exhibition opening

10/03/2012 - 00:23

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We are very glad to announce that the Robots & Avatars Champion Noel Sharkey (Professor of AI and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement at the University of Sheffield) will attend the Preview of the Robots and Avatars Exhibition at FACT next week! Check here his provaction about Artifical Intelligence in 2010 for the Robots [...]

Robots and Avatars exhibition needs human avatars for FACT opening!

01/03/2012 - 15:43

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Do you have what it takes to be our human test subject? For the launch of Robots and Avatars, artist Martin Baraga Bricelj has set the public of Liverpool a challenge, to get involved in the UK premiere of his Public Avatar project. He needs two people, or as he calls them, “human test subjects” [...]

EXHIBITION: Robots & Avatars, our colleagues & playmates of the future

22/11/2011 - 17:35

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Join us in a near future where robots, avatars and telepresence form part of an exciting new reality. From pervasive networked gaming to robots that teach, touch, care or scare, Robots and Avatars already co-habit the world in which we work and play. Robots and Avatars is an intercultural, intergenerational and interdisciplinary exploration of a [...]