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AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, F., Chamberlain, A., & Benford, S. (2025, June). AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Poster presented at Third UK AI Conference 2025, London, UK

We present a wearable toolkit designed to enhance shared perception between humans and robots, facilitating real-time data collection to support embedded AI based applications. Advancements in wearable sensor-based technologies mean there are opportu... Read More about AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Ngo, V., McGarry, G., Kucukyilmaz, A., Benford, S., & Higgins, A. (2025, February). Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations. Presented at Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

In this piece we start to explore the ways in which we somatise our interaction with robots as a symbiotic system - both as human and robot, and as human-robot. We also consider the ways that we might want to take our physical nature (existence), for... Read More about Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations.

Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat (2024)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Chamberlain, A., Nichele, E., Bødker, M., & Turchi, T. (2024). Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(6), 857–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01837-1

When humans and machines start to chat: beyond anthropocentrism

Digital and embedded artificial intelligent (AI) agents with conversational capabilities have gained significant attention in recent years [1, 2]. Using natural language communication... Read More about Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat.

What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction (2024)
Journal Article
Iber, M., Enge, K., Rönnberg, N., Neidhardt, A., Schnell, N., Pollack, K., kallionpää, M., & Chamberlain, A. (2024). What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(5), 655-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01835-3

Special issue: Perspectives on Modalities in Sound and Music Interaction

Issue Editors: Michael Iber, Kajetan Enge, Niklas Rönnberg, Annika Neidhardt, Norbert Schnell, Katharina Pollack, Maria Kallionpää, Alan Chamberlain

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Holocaust art (2024)
Book Chapter
Julius, C. (2024). Holocaust art. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion. Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780199340378.013.1006

The category of Holocaust art has been established by asking questions, the most vital of which is whether it should be a category of art at all. In this new survey, those questions will provide the organising framework. After addressing the primary... Read More about Holocaust art.

The Past in the Present: Eleanor Antin, Jewish Art and 1990s America (2024)
Journal Article
Julius, C. (2024). The Past in the Present: Eleanor Antin, Jewish Art and 1990s America. Art History, 47(3), 522-540. https://doi.org/10.1093/arthis/ulae030

This essay situates two works by Eleanor Antin—the film The Man Without a World (1991), and the installation Vilna Nights (1993)—in the context of Jewish art as it was articulated in 1990s America. During this period, efforts were made by scholars, c... Read More about The Past in the Present: Eleanor Antin, Jewish Art and 1990s America.

Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice (2024)
Journal Article
Lanuza, F. (2024). Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice. ARENA Journal of Architectural Research, 9(1), Article 2. https://doi.org/10.55588/ajar.389

In this paper, I discuss Peter Eisenman’s unbuilt proposal for the Cannaregio Ovest district in Venice, and develop a speculative reading linking the project’s archive and the site. I account for different absences involved to visually represent the... Read More about Archive and site: The ghost of Peter Eisenman's 1978 Cannaregio Ovest project in Venice.

Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North (2024)
Book
van Rooyen, H., & Pithouse-Morgan, K. (2024). Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North. HSRC Press

Poetic Inquiry for the Human and Social Sciences: Voices from the South and North enriches human and social science research by introducing new voices, insights, and epistemologies. Poetic inquiry, or poetry as research, is a literary and performance... Read More about Poetic inquiry for the social and human sciences: Voices from the South and North.

Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement (2023)
Book
Atkin, W. (2023). Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement. Bloomsbury Publishing

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting... Read More about Surrealist Sorcery: Objects, Theories and Practices of Magic in the Surrealist Movement.

Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, R., & Marshall, J. (2023, July). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and t... Read More about Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS.

TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Chamberlain, A., Fischer, J. E., Benford, S., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., Kucukyilmaz, A., Barnard, P., Row Farr, J., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Devlin, K., Mancini, C., & Mills, D. (2023, July). TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Cat Royale is an artist-led exploration of trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) created by the TAS Hub's creative ambassadors Blast Theory. A small community of cats inhabits a purpose built 'cat utopia' at the centre of which a robot arm tries to en... Read More about TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals.

Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Bryan-Kinns, N., Ford, C., Chamberlain, A., Benford, S. D., Kennedy, H., Li, Z., Qiong, W., Xia, G. G., & Rezwana, J. (2023, June). Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts. Presented at 15th Conference on Creativity and Cognition (C&C 23), New York, NY

This first workshop on explainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) brings together a community of researchers and creative practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Interaction Design, AI, explainable AI (XAI), and Digital Arts to explore the rol... Read More about Explainable AI for the Arts: XAIxArts.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
Journal Article
Atkin, W. (2023). Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945. Dada/Surrealism, 24(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.31902

This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design (2022)
Journal Article
Jin, X., & Hale, J. (2022). Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design. Journal of Architecture, 27(7-8), 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2153377

Architectural writing norms have been a subject of constant debate in recent decades. Architectural poststructuralists have often conceptualised writing as a form of virtual construction in the medium of words. Recent scholarship relating to innovati... Read More about Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design.

Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Emsley, I., & Chamberlain, A. (2021, June). Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification. Presented at 13th ACM Web Science Conference 2021, Virtual

In this paper, we present our initial findings in using digital methods to consider the way that different devices can connect to the same object. We take a more experimental view of the ways in which network data might be used in compositions to hel... Read More about Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification.

Integration furniture for migrants (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
GENTIL-FERNANDEZ, M., BARRERA-ALTEMIR, M., & CARO-DOMINGUEZ, J. Integration furniture for migrants. 22 May 2021 - 21 November 2021

Contribution with an exhibited project and piece to the Spanish Pavilion at the 2021 Venice Biennale. The curatorial committee selected a series of architectural projects to be exhibited and presented during the biennale.

I presented a subversiv... Read More about Integration furniture for migrants.

From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound (2021)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, A., Hazzard, A., Kelly, E., Bødker, M., & Kallionpää, M. (2021). From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 617-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01554-z

This introduction brings together a range of research, a majority of which was presented at the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham. The conference brings together a range of researchers, industry, designers and educators t... Read More about From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound.

Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences (2020)
Journal Article
Mével, P. A. (2020). Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences. Punctum: International Journal of Semiotics, 06(01), 203-219. https://doi.org/10.18680/hss.2020.0010

This article examines the importance of paratext – theoretically and practically – in getting D/deaf audiences to engage with theatrical performances. our notion of ‘accessible paratext’ necessarily involves multimodal forms of translation, and inter... Read More about Accessible paratext: actively engaging (with) D/deaf audiences.

Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World (2020)
Book
Roe, J., & Andrews, J. (Eds.). (2021). Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351010122

This volume presents a range of new research into the experiences, agencies and diverse political identities of Iberian women between the fifteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores how the political identities of Iberian women were represen... Read More about Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World.

Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine Altarpiece and Female Empowerment (2020)
Book Chapter
Andrews, J., & Roe, J. (2020). Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine Altarpiece and Female Empowerment. In Representing Women's Political Identity in the Early Modern World (105-124). Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

This chapter examines Josefa de Ayala's altarpiece on the life of St Catherine of Alexandria (1661) in the parish church of Óbidos, Portugal and the relationship that may be drawn between it and the impending nuptials of Catarina de Bragança and Char... Read More about Josefa de Ayala e Cabreira's St Catherine Altarpiece and Female Empowerment.