At the Machine Cohabitation Lab (cohab-lab.net), we prepare for a future living, working, and learning with machines. We explore intersections of human and machine perception, particularly how emerging technology impacts sites of intimate life. We develop modes of embodied experience and experimental human-computer interaction. Using AI, data science, and distributed computing workflows, we explore creative AI and augmentation of human imagination. With IoT and embedded, situated computing, we create smart homes and responsive environments. Through all, we seek insight into human imagination and perception, staging mutually revelatory encounters between humans and machines. We strive to deepen our understanding of emerging technology, cultivate perspective on what we ask our machines to do, and inform the design of our future.
People
Robert Twomey, Ph.D. Founding Director, Assistant Professor at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, UNL
Reid Brockmeier, Creative Technologist, Researcher on Generative AI, Digital Fabrication, Robotics, Embodied Code
Kylie Muller, Undergraduate Researcher on Embodied Code, Curriculum Design
Abraham Schaecher, UCARE Undergraduate Researcher on Generative AI, Data Science
Lincoln Graham, UCARE Undergraduate Researcher on "Narrative Systems and Performative AI"
Alumni
Emma Mirnics, Undergraduate Researcher with the Embodied Code Project
Caleb Kirilov, UCARE Undergraduate Researcher
Projects
Embodied Code: embodiedcode.net
Radio Play + Performative AI: radio-play.net
Generative Art + Empathy: see Schaecher's "Generative Art Based on the Input of Emotions", or the SDMA feature on "Art + Empathy Lab". Art+Empathy Website.
Artificial Imagination: (see POM performance)
Measurable Creative AI: mcreativeai.org (with collaborators from Carnegie Mellon University ML Department and Robotics Institute)
Smart Home / IoT / Experimental HRI: dissertation work at the University of Washington
Grants
- Embodied Code is supported by NSF Grant #2017042
- Edgeworks, NRI Core Research Facility (link)
- SPACE^2: Space, Policy, Agriculture, Climate, and Extreme Environment
- Art and Empathy is supported by a CAC Research in the Arts Grant
- NVIDIA Developer Program. HP Data Science Proof of Concept (Z8).
News
- A Girl and Her Dog Performance for QI IDEAS
- Salon at Synergia Ranch
- Symposium on Media Literacy in the Age of AI
- Fish Phone Booth at Without Walls 2024
- Second Annual AI Filmmaking Hackathon
- AI Theater Performance at the Johnny Carson Center
- Late-Breaking Work at HRI 2024
- Robot Cabaret at INCOSE IW 2024
- NYC Media Lab x Bertelsmann AI and Creative Industry Challenge
- Worlds in Play at ASU MIX 2024