#11 Åsa Unander-Scharin: Opera, dance & robotics

Åsa Unander-Scharin is a professor of music performance at Luleå university of technology. Her works is with the study of the intersection between opera, dance, music, interactive technology and robotics. 

Her artistic work started in 1998 when she created the first choreography for an industrial robot, with many acclaimed works to follow. She has choreographed the Nobel Banquette and two dance films Elevation and Artificial Body Voices produced by the Swedish Television. Her most recent works include two experimental operas Callas:Medea for the Croatian National Opera and The Tale of the Great Computing Machine commissioned by the KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction

1:02 - History of Opera

4:02 - Current technics in Opera 

6:02 - Evolution in the arts

8:16 - Creating new works

12:12 - TheTale of the Great Computing Machine

17:06 - Machines in performative arts 

26:04 - Anthropomorphism 

29:02 - AI art

39:09 - The artistic experience 

40:45 - Choreography 

43:35 - The modern experience 

48:47 - New operas

53:00 - Artists and Robots

1:01:02 - Robot performers 

1:07:56 - Artistic freedom 

1:10:48 - Humanoid robots 

1:13:18 - Robots enjoying art

1:15:00 - Future works 

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