The Robot as a technocultural icon

Important results from the project

The project "The Robot as a Technocultural Icon" has been successfully brought to an end. During this 2-year project, Bojana Romic organised an international online conference "Artificial Creativity", Malmö University, which gathered 70 participants from 6 continents. As a side event, Bojana and her colleagues organised a 3D exhibition in Mozilla´s ´Hubs´. The project has been presented to both academic and non-academic audiences, including: AI Pep Rally (Bombina Bombast, Malmö), AI Workshop at University of Southern Denmark, and PERSEO Winter School in Eindhoven (2022).

Expected long term effects

In July 2021 Bojana´s article "Negotiating anthropomorphism in the Ai-da Robot" was published in the prestigious International Journal for Social Robotics (Springer). The results of this project have been disseminated at the following conferences: Nordicom, ECREA, AI and the Posthumanities (Lund University). In March 2022 Bojana Romic and Bo Reimer co-edited a special issue "Artificial Creativity" in the Australian open-access peer-reviewed journal Transformations, where Bojana published an article "It´s in the Name: Technical Nonhumans and the Artistic Production".

Approach and implementation

Bojana is a member of MEDEA research group at Malmö university. Bo Reimer is a director of MEDEA, and he facilitated a number of events where other MEDEA members helped Bojana in organisation of the Artificial Creativity conference, and providing feedback for her articles. Many speakers at the Artificial Creativity conferences (including all three key speakers) made their recorded lectures freely available for all users of the conference website, which now serves as a video database for for future research. The project contributed to forming a much larger academic network for MEDEA.

External links

Special issue "Artificial Creativity", co-edited by Bojana Romic and Bo Reimer, Transformations journal. PERSEO Winter School