This Week @ UC San Diego had a nice article about my Machine Learning for the Arts Course. This interdisciplinary course is the first ML and Arts course offered at UCSD. Read more here: https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/making-art-with-ai

My collaborator Ying Wu (from the Swartz Center for Computational Neuroscience) and I are thrilled to have received a grant from the California Arts Council to study empathy and attention in the experience of art. I can’t wait to start work on the project this summer! With support of the California Arts Council, the Clarke… Continue reading Research in the Arts Grant: Art and Empathy

I’m very excited to offer a new Machine Learning for the Arts course this Spring at UCSD through the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Course website and registration is here: ml.roberttwomey.com

I’m a postdoc at the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego. I look forward to many fruitful collaborations and research projects!

I was a panelist with Asta Roseway, Mira Lane, Afroditi Psarra, and Blaise Agüera y Arcas in Seattle last week.  We had a stimulating discussion of issues at the nexus of AI and creative work. Thanks Microsoft and Design in Public for inviting me to participate. https://designinpublic.org/event/on-artificial-intelligence-creativity-and-trust-an-interactive-discussion-and-gallery-event/

I’m thrilled to have been awarded a YSU University Research Council Grant sponsoring a new version of A Machine for Living In, engaging with the lived conditions of abandoned housing in the city. Stay tuned!

I’m thrilled that we have been awarded a FY2018 Strategic Investment Funding grant from the YSU Budget Advisory Council  for Immersive Visualization and Collaborative Digital Work ($90k). This money will fund a 20-seat AR/VR lab on YSU campus for use by multiple departments to support new and existing curricula, including the nascent gaming program, and… Continue reading Strategic Investment Grant for AR/VR

Our project Rover will be featured in the Special Screenings program of the Athens Digital Arts Festival (ADAF ’18) from May 24 to May 27 in Athens, Greece. I’m sorry I can’t be there to join the project 🙂  

On Thursday March 8 I successfully defended my dissertation at the University of Washington.

I’m thrilled that I was awarded a Research Professorship at YSU to develop a site-specific extension of my Machine for Living In project engaging abandoned housing in Youngstown, Ohio.