European Robotics Forum 2022
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Alex May joined a live panel at European Robotics Forum 2022 in Rotterdam, discussing how art, science, and technology can meet through robotics.
Alex May and Anna Dumitriu were invited to European Robotics Forum 2022 in Rotterdam to take part in a live panel discussion on the potential of combining science, art, and technology in the field of robotics. The conversation drew on their long-running work with robotic systems, including projects developed through their residency with the University of Hertfordshire and through wider European collaborations.
Organised by S+T+ARTS, Better Factory, and VOJEXT, the panel brought together artists, researchers, and technologists to discuss how artistic practice can contribute to robotics beyond demonstration or spectacle. For May, that meant speaking from the position of making works that test how people read intention, care, agency, and social behaviour into machines.
In that context, the forum connected directly to a wider strand of his practice concerned with how technical systems shape perception and human response. Robotics becomes a way to make those questions public and embodied, showing how meaning is produced not only by what a machine can do, but by what people think it is doing in return.