Robert Twomey

Assistant Professor of Teaching (LPSOE)

Robert Twomey is an artist and engineer exploring poetic intersections of human and machine perception, particularly how emerging technologies transform sites of intimate life. His work integrates traditional forms with new technologies to examine questions of empathy, agency, and desire in human-machine interaction. He houses these projects in the Machine Cohabitation Lab.

He has presented his work at SIGGRAPH (Best Paper Award), CVPR, ISEA, NeurIPS, HRI, SLSA, and the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at  the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (CMU), Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), and a fellow with the NYC Media Lab x Bertelsmann AI and Creative Industries Challenge. His work has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the California Arts Council, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, and NVIDIA.

He received his B.S. from Yale University with majors in  Art and Biomedical Engineering, his M.F.A. in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, and his Ph.D. in  Digital Arts and Experimental Media from the University of Washington. He is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Computing in the Arts in the Department of Visual Arts and an Applied Imagination Faculty with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego.

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