Premeditated Glitch

XR, Art, Digital Fabrication

Conference: ACADIA 2022
Software support: Riley Studebaker
Material support: Claire Moriarty
Toolkits: Rhino, Grasshopper, ABB 6-axis Robot, HTC Vive VR controller

Year: 2022

Premeditated Glitch utilizes advanced technologies such as body-tracking software, real-time robotic control, and neural networks to create a unique and innovative approach to painting and custom-cast metal sculptures. The system can analyze and reanalyze gesture paths in real-time by simulating, interpreting, optimizing, and co-creating human painting gestures. The robotic arm mimics and optimizes human drawing movements while occasionally providing more efficient drawing techniques to reduce its movement path. However, due to its design constraints, it often creates symmetrical elements on the paper, such as a perfect circle, whenever they make significant turns. Consequently, the artwork contains the replication of the human's bodily motion and the robot's "subjective" consciousness. As such, the two entities collaborated to produce the final piece.