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NAME:Exhibition artists-in-residence at the Hybrid Intelligence Center
 : Embrace Angels - My chatbot’s Body
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SUMMARY:Exhibition artists-in-residence at the Hybrid Intelligence Center
 : Embrace Angels - My chatbot’s Body
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: <html> <body> <p><p>My Chatbot’s Body�
 �� is presented within the “Embrace Angels” interactive performan
 ce installation, consisting of a 9-meter catwalk, two semi-automated 
 Franka robot arms, and a conversational robot.</p></p> <p><strong>Int
 eractive performance installation by Karen Lancel and Hermen Maat<br>
 </strong>In collaboration with University Nottingham, Studio Vrij and
  VU Art Science Gallery.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>NU Bu
 ilding Ground Floor, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1111, Amsterdam
 .</p><p><strong>Opening event</strong>: Thursday 29 October 16.00-18.
 30 (Theater 1).<br>This event will feature a talk and panel discussio
 n with the artists, followed by a meet-and-greet with the artists and
  scientists over drinks and snacks.<br><strong>Exhibition dates: </st
 rong>&nbsp;Exhibition 28-31 October 2026 (NU lobby). The artists are 
 present.<br><strong>Exhibition times:</strong> Oct 28 17.00-19.00; Oc
 t 29- 31 15.00-19.00</p><p><em><strong>Performance Installation: “E
 mbrace Angels – My chatbot’s Body”.<br></strong></em><em>“My 
 Chatbot’s Body” is presented within the “Embrace Angels” inte
 ractive performance installation, consisting of a 9-meter catwalk, tw
 o semi-automated Franka robot arms, and a conversational robot.</em><
 em><strong><br></strong></em><strong>Can humans and robots truly embr
 ace each other? Who is responsible? What memories will we share? How 
 do our bodies feel embracing robots? </strong>Embrace Angels question
 s how robots and AI – increasingly replacing humans – define what
  passes for ‘social’, both in our embodied intimacies and in hybr
 id war zones. As a counter-practice, it provokes new narratives and r
 ituals for critical dialogue about intimate relations between humans,
  robots, and AI in coexistence. The&nbsp; act of embracing is staged 
 as a poetic playground to reimagine shared memory and rhythm, vulnera
 bility and agency, risk and trust, and reciprocity&nbsp; when bodily 
 boundaries shift between self, others, and machines in symbiosis. In 
 this unfamiliar poetic AI ritual, we are all embracing cyborg angels.
 <strong><br></strong>This ongoing research draws on media performance
  art, philosophy, ethics, creative AI, HRI, and psychoneuroscience to
  investigate a relational field of human and robot bodies. Central is
  the act of embracing, both as a shared choreography of <em>bodily be
 coming </em>and as a critical metaphor for living in more-than-human 
 ecologies.&nbsp;</p><p>Read more: <a href="https://www.hybrid-intelli
 gence-centre.nl/embrace-angels/">EMBRACE ANGELS – The Hybrid Intell
 igence Centre</a></p> </body> </html>
DESCRIPTION: My Chatbot’s Body” is presented within the “Embrace
  Angels” interactive performance installation, consisting of a 9-me
 ter catwalk, two semi-automated Franka robot arms, and a conversation
 al robot. <strong>Interactive performance installation by Karen Lance
 l and Hermen Maat<br></strong>In collaboration with University Nottin
 gham, Studio Vrij and VU Art Science Gallery.&nbsp;<strong>Location: 
 </strong>NU Building Ground Floor, Vrije Universiteit, De Boelelaan 1
 111, Amsterdam.<strong>Opening event</strong>: Thursday 29 October 16
 .00-18.30 (Theater 1).<br>This event will feature a talk and panel di
 scussion with the artists, followed by a meet-and-greet with the arti
 sts and scientists over drinks and snacks.<br><strong>Exhibition date
 s: </strong>&nbsp;Exhibition 28-31 October 2026 (NU lobby). The artis
 ts are present.<br><strong>Exhibition times:</strong> Oct 28 17.00-19
 .00; Oct 29- 31 15.00-19.00<em><strong>Performance Installation: “E
 mbrace Angels – My chatbot’s Body”.<br></strong></em><em>“My 
 Chatbot’s Body” is presented within the “Embrace Angels” inte
 ractive performance installation, consisting of a 9-meter catwalk, tw
 o semi-automated Franka robot arms, and a conversational robot.</em><
 em><strong><br></strong></em><strong>Can humans and robots truly embr
 ace each other? Who is responsible? What memories will we share? How 
 do our bodies feel embracing robots? </strong>Embrace Angels question
 s how robots and AI – increasingly replacing humans – define what
  passes for ‘social’, both in our embodied intimacies and in hybr
 id war zones. As a counter-practice, it provokes new narratives and r
 ituals for critical dialogue about intimate relations between humans,
  robots, and AI in coexistence. The&nbsp; act of embracing is staged 
 as a poetic playground to reimagine shared memory and rhythm, vulnera
 bility and agency, risk and trust, and reciprocity&nbsp; when bodily 
 boundaries shift between self, others, and machines in symbiosis. In 
 this unfamiliar poetic AI ritual, we are all embracing cyborg angels.
 <strong><br></strong>This ongoing research draws on media performance
  art, philosophy, ethics, creative AI, HRI, and psychoneuroscience to
  investigate a relational field of human and robot bodies. Central is
  the act of embracing, both as a shared choreography of <em>bodily be
 coming </em>and as a critical metaphor for living in more-than-human 
 ecologies.&nbsp;Read more: <a href="https://www.hybrid-intelligence-c
 entre.nl/embrace-angels/">EMBRACE ANGELS – The Hybrid Intelligence 
 Centre</a>
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