The Emergent Objects project comprises three sub-projects which address notions of emergence and interface in separate but interpenetrative ways and which are clustered under one meta-level project which investigates and articulates overarching questions of the performance/design interface. Each sub-project involves a cross-sector, interdisciplinary team drawn from artists, designers, choreographers, performance academics, computer specialists and roboticists from the academy and the professional sphere. And each investigates the interface between human and technological object using performance practices and knowledge but from different starting points.

Snake investigates the extent of interactivity and responsivity between a designed object (an interactive sculpture) and a human agent.
SpiderCrab is concerned with design development for a robotic agent, using models and theories of performance. The focus is on ways that designers and performers work together as an interdisciplinary team.

Hoverflies aims to design and build an interactive object which entices performative interaction and play. This projectis at the earliest stage of the design process, in its most fluid state of emergence.

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