Alter-Art: Exploring Embodied Artistic Creation through a Robot Avatar
Do Won Park, Samuele Bordini, Giorgio Grioli, Manuel G. Catalano, Antonio Bicchi

TL;DR
Alter-Art introduces a novel paradigm where artists inhabit robot avatars to create embodied art, enabling new creative experiences and agency across dance, theater, and painting.
Contribution
This work pioneers the concept of artists inhabiting robot bodies for embodied artistic creation, integrating immersive teleoperation and analyzing its impact on creativity.
Findings
Artists develop a strong sense of presence within the robotic body.
Physical constraints of robots influence artistic expression differently across domains.
Embodiment enhances creative agency and interaction in robotic art creation.
Abstract
As with every emerging technology, new tools in the hands of artists reshape the nature of artwork creation. Current frameworks for robotics in arts deploy the robot as an autonomous creator or a collaborator, thus leaving a certain gap between the human artist and the machine. Now, we stand at the dawn of an era where artists can escape physical limitations and reshape their creative identity by inhabiting an alternative body. This new paradigm allows artists not only to command a robot remotely, but also to {\it be} a robot, to see and feel through it, experiencing a new embodied reality. Unlike virtual reality, where art is created in a digital dimension, in this case art creation is still firmly grounded in the material world: clay molded by mechanical hands, paint swept across a canvas or gestures performed on a physical stage alongside human actors. Through the robot avatar…
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