# Madeline Gannon Robots Are Creatures Not Things Complete

- Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Department: Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Level: Undergraduate
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/20190909madelinegannonrobotsarecreaturesnotthingscomplete)
- Licence: none stated by the source
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Robots Are Creatures Not Things a talk delivered by Madeline Gannon as part of the Berkeley Center for New Media's 2019-20 Arts, Technology and Culture Colloquium.

After 50 years of promises and potential, robots are beginning to leave the lab to live in the wild with us. But how should we coexist with these intelligent, autonomous machines? In this lecture, Dr. Madeline Gannon discusses how art and technology are merging to forge new futures for human-robot relations. She shares her work in convincing robots to do things they were never intended to do: from transforming a giant industrial robot into living, breathing mechanical creature, to taming a horde autonomous robots to behave more like a pack of animals. By pushing the boundaries of human-robot interaction, her work shows that robots can not only be useful, but meaningful additions to our everyday lives.

About the Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium

Founded by Prof. Ken Goldberg in 1997, the ATC lecture series is an internationally respected forum for creative ideas. Always free of charge and open to the public, the series is coordinated by the Berkeley Center for New Media and has presented over 200 leading artists, writers, and critical thinkers who question assumptions and push boundaries at the forefront of art, technology, and culture including.

## Lectures

1. [2019-09-09 Madeline Gannon Robots Are Creatures Not Things - Complete](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ia/20190909madelinegannonrobotsarecreaturesnotthingscomplete/27c010c08459), 1 h 19 min (Video)