Child in the WIld

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Background: Child in the Wild investigates collaborative creativity and the use of machine learning to aid interactions between humans and robots.
Contribution: The resulting artwork dissolves the boundaries between computational and physical phenomena, displaying an aesthetic that is a real hybrid of the physical and the digital, of human and machine learning, of natural and artificial intelligence, and of real and synthetic evolution. It is an artwork and aesthetic that emerges from the interaction between robot, people and virtual environment, neither one taking precedence, rather collaborating on a genuinely post-digital, post-convergent artwork.

Significance: Child in the Wild was presented at the Art Science Museum in Singapore, a world class exhibition centre focussing on new technology in the arts and sciences. The work was selected as part of the art program for the ACM Creativity and Cognition conference following a peer review process. Child in the Wild was funded by the Australia Council for the Arts through a competitive grant process which supported development and touring.