PhD | Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations
My PhD draws on felt ethics to deconstruct human-machine interactions and reveal the ethics implicit in their design. In my thesis, I reimagine the aesthetics, ethics, and politics of such technologies as a collective project entailing somatic freedoms.
Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI
The UKRI Turing AI World Leading Fellowship Somabotics: Creatively Embodying AI is led by Professor Steve Benford. Our team will explore how people make meaning through art and embodied experience, partnering with award-winning artists to create a series of robotic artworks, from robots that embrace and groom humans, to ones that dance and play music with them.
Embrace Angels
We are working with the artist duo Lancel/Maat who create pioneering technological artworks that explore our sense of “togetherness” in our hybrid socio-technical world. Embrace Angels explores how humans and robots can embrace each other.
Robots, Dance, Different Bodies
We collaborated with professional dancers who have different disabilities to examine the machine/body interface and reimagine bodily contact with robots as being creative, expressive and trustworthy.
How To Train Your Drone
How to Train your Drone is a unique human-drone research artefact that explores how people discover the aesthetic potential of drones. This project design concepts and metaphors that create space for people to cultivate their relationships with machines.
The Digital Futures Drone Gymnasium
The Digital Futures Drone Gymnasium explores the potential of physical and embodied training accessories to support human-drone interactions. The project aims to provide tools to study and envision novel relationships between humans and robots.
The Digital Futures Drone Arena
The Digital Futures Drone Arena was a novel aerial drone testbed where we facilitated two drone competitions . We explored bodily human-drone interaction and how we can create bridging spaces that support the emergence of new collaborations and practices.
Rachael Garrett 