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What Other Movement Is There?

Rethinking Human-Robot Interaction through the Lens of Dance Performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2024

Kate Maguire-Rosier Open the ORCID record for Kate Maguire-Rosier [Opens in a new window] ,
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Abstract

The way robots move often evokes horror. Dance—as an embodied, movement-based art form open to possibility—can expand motion-based Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) beyond popular approaches based on anthropomorphism and late-capitalist efficiency. The “super-machinic” robotic system coopts human-centered movement and perpetuates neoliberal capitalist agendas. Dance offers a provocation for HRI and an invitation to reimagine how we move.

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Special Issue Still Exhausted: Labor, Digital Technologies, and the Performing Arts
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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 1: Still Exhausted: Labor, Digital Technologies, and the Performing Arts , March 2024 , pp. 87 - 103
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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