Gathering of the Hive presented at UN/GREEN conference in Art & Science Festival, Riga http://festival2019.rixc.org/

Continue ReadingGathering of the Hive presented at UN/GREEN conference in Art & Science Festival, Riga http://festival2019.rixc.org/

On the 5th of July , Haakon Haraldsen Roen and Vako Varankian presented Gathering of the Hive: Investigating the Clustering Behaviour of Honeybees Through Art and Swarm Robotics. This collaboration is also part of Haakon's master thesis , advisors were Boel, Stefano and Kristin. A…

FELT kickoff meeting

Continue ReadingFELT kickoff meeting

On Tuesday 30th April the FELT project group has invited colleagues and friends to the kickoff meeting with presentation by Kristin Bergaust, Stefano Nichele, and guest Maria Castellanos. Maria (http://mariacastellanos.net) is a Spanish artist and researcher with PhD in fine arts from University of Vigo.…

Congrats! The FELT group receives an internal OsloMet grant for a new Lighthouse Project

Continue ReadingCongrats! The FELT group receives an internal OsloMet grant for a new Lighthouse Project

Congratulations to the FELT project group for securing a 1 MNOK internal grant at OsloMet for 2019-20. The multi-disciplinary project will conduct in-depth transdisciplinary research to meet challenges and discover possibilities in the interrelations and intersections that occur between human beings, living environments and machines…

Congrats! The FELT project received funding as part of the EU Creative Europe project “Green Revisited: Encountering Emerging Naturecultures”

Continue ReadingCongrats! The FELT project received funding as part of the EU Creative Europe project “Green Revisited: Encountering Emerging Naturecultures”

The project is led by RIXC (Riga) and includes OsloMet (Oslo), Liepaja University (Liepaja), Biofilia Aalto (Helsinki), Emmerport (Bourges), Project Atol (Ljubjana), and Baltan (Eindoven). The project will organize workshops and residencies, exhibitions and conferences, publications and research, network building.

Interview on forskning.no

Continue ReadingInterview on forskning.no

Artistic research combined with IT methods can be a great way to educate children to robotics and AI. We received a visit from forskning.no and 10-years old Eskil, to show how our multi-disciplinary research methods at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Art con…

Presentation at Kulturtanken for the celebration of the art and science journal Leonardo (50 years)

Continue ReadingPresentation at Kulturtanken for the celebration of the art and science journal Leonardo (50 years)

We presented our OsloMet projects at the Kulturtanken Lunch Seminar 29/11 at 12:00-15:00, during the celebrations for Leonardo's journal turning 50 years.  Abstract: Using an algorithm inspired by the clustering behaviour of young honeybees applied to a small ‘swarm’ of thymio robots, Haakon Haraldsen Roenand…