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M\u00f3nica Riki\u0107 is an awarded electronic artist and creative coder. Born and based in Barcelona. She is a Bachelor of Fine Arts (UB) and has a Master\u2019s degree in Digital Arts (UPF), a Master\u2019s degree in Contemporary Philosophy (UOC). She is a Phd Student at Network and Information Technologies doctoral program (UOC).<\/p>\n
She has been awarded with the Catalan National Culture Award 2021 (Premi Nacional de Cultura de Catalunya 2021). Her works are part of the NewArt foundation and Colecci\u00f3n DKV art collections.<\/p>\n
M\u00f3nica focuses her practice on creative coding and electronics, combining them with non-digital objects to create interactive projects, robotic installations, and handcrafted electronic devices.<\/p>\n
With her projects she has participated in different festivals around the world such Ars Electronica in Linz, Creative Tech Week in New York, Robotronica in Austalia or FILE in Brazil, among others, and has exhibited at local institutions such as the CCCB, Arts Santa M\u00f3nica, La Capella or Disseny Hub.<\/p>\n
She has been awarded with the Catalan Culture Award 2021, and also at the Japan Media Arts Festival, AMAZE Berlin, the Margaret Guthman Musical Instrument Competition in Atlanta and with a BBVA Foundation\u00a0 Leonardo grant. She has participated in artistic residencies at Technoculture, Arts and Games in Montreal, European Media Artists in Resicence Exchange (EMARE) in\u00a0 QUT (Australia) and Hexagram (Montreal), Medialab Prado in Madrid, Platohedro in Medellin and Etop\u00eda in Zaragoza, as part of the European ARTificial Intelligence Lab program.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Data Gossiping Robots \/ Credit: M\u00f3nica Riki\u0107<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n
+ Residence Project: Somoure<\/h2>\n
Artistic research project examining the expressive conditions required for non-humanoid social robots to be accepted as trustworthy and safe companions within a collaborative healthcare environment. The overall project idea is based on the awareness that these spaces are sensitive to both consensual and accidental physical contact between humans and robots. Therefore, the whole conceptual framework navigates around the concept of \u2018touch\u2019 and the experimentation with physical and haptic communication of social robotics.<\/p>\n
Consequently, the research has a special focus on embodied cognition and expression. The artistic experimentations will work towards finding a way to add a physical expressive layer to the robot performance, that doesn\u2019t focus that much on utilitarian goals, while they still achieve them \u2013 and for this matter the collaboration with the scientific research groups and LEG is expected to be very close \u2013 but is designed to engage in communication ones. Through conceptual research, robot behavior experiments, handmade electronic gadgets, and critical speculative design workshops the project will try to reveal what role materials, size, shape and motion play in a robot\u2019s self-expression in order to promote acceptance, trust and safety when interacting with humans in this type of collaborative spaces sensitive to contact.<\/p>\n
The outcome is expected to be presented as an art installation with a main physical robotic implementation (via artistic transformation), surrounded by other devices and experiments built during the process that will serve as a nonlinear narrative of the research and experimentation process. The main platform should be able to engage with the public, expressing its personality through its behaviors and appearance. Acting a role that would inspire social acceptance and safety, it should persuade the audience to get close to it and reach out to touch it in a comfortable and friendly way.<\/p>\n
+ Jury Testimonial<\/h2>\n
\u201cHer project is extremely well developed and organised. It is consistent with the challenge proposed. She has a grounded experience in the field.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Tere Badia<\/p>\nS+T+ARTS in the City is co-funded by the European Union under grant agreement LC-01984766 under the STARTS \u2013 Science, Technology and Arts initiative of DG CONNECT. It is also supported by the Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the Fundaci\u00f3n Espa\u00f1ola para la Ciencia y la Tecnolog\u00eda – Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovaci\u00f3n y Universidades.<\/em>
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