As a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, CAVS, and as an artist-in-residence at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, CSAIL, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology,  I collaborated with Aaron Edsinger and Lijin Aryananda and the humanoid robots they had built, Domo and Mertz. I spent two years learning about these humanoid robots; how they move, what they think and feel, and how they express themselves.  I explored the human-robot relationship by various forms of embodiments: re-enacting them, drawing them, and interacting with them. 

Among other, I have performed Domo's movements (video sample below) as it interacts with Aaron. I have also composed drawings based on recordings of Aaron's and Domo's interactions (see below). In them, I have reenacted both Aaron as well as Domo. By translating the robot to human interaction into a human to human interaction, I am hoping to bring into relief our emotional projections onto the machine.

MIT Project: Learning Domo ( 2005 )