Three stage drawing transfer

Abstract

Three Stage Drawing Transfer is an experimental human-robot performance and emerging media arts research project exploring drawing, cognition, and new possibilities for creative, embodied interactions between humans and machines. The work creates a visual-mental-physical circuit between a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), a co-robotic arm, and a five-year-old child. Building on traditions from experimental performance and collaborative drawing, it extends these with the emergent capabilities of generative neural networks and robotic automation. The live child-robot interaction occurs within the space of a shared sheet of paper, where they together develop a collaborative drawing guided by the GAN's understanding and the child's imagination, resulting in a drawing as artifact and video as documentation.