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SUMMARY: Handshake: An Interactive Robotic Installation by AATB
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DESCRIPTION:As the COVID-19 pandemic has escalated\, the potential role of robotics has been becoming increasingly clear. Robots are gaining importance in creating new forms of interaction in times of physical distancing and managing this public health crisis. They bear the potential to be deployed for disinfection\, delivering medications and food\, measuring vital signs\, and assisting border controls. But can they help us overcome the perhaps biggest challenge of living in isolation and over physical distance: missing the human touch?\n\n\n\nHandshake is an interactive robotic installation by the collaborative design practice AATB that addresses this question from an artistic perspective. In times of physical distancing\, when touching becomes impossible\, Handshake is a platform on which strangers can interact with each other\, virtually but also physically. Shake hands with us and share some digital intimacy through this unique online experience.\n\nView the exhibition: Handshake\n\nThis exhibit will be accompanied by a series of conversations that explore some of the questions raised by AATB and create an active exchange with robotics experts from Switzerland and around the globe.\n\n\n\nThe physical installation consists of two robotic arms\, each equipped with an over-sized hand. They are facing each other and moving together\, following the directions of two people from afar. This virtual platform enables visitors to take control of the robots. The chance to control a large and complex robot with ease\, no manual needed here! An interaction as simple as reaching out and shaking your own hand but with a friend across the globe.\n\n\n\nVisitors are matched in pairs as they join the site\, each remotely controlling one robotic arm in their browser in real-time via mouse and touch input. They then interact with one another aiming to shake hands\, to touch.\n\n\n\nAfter a certain amount of time\, (depending on the amount of visitors in line) the scene is reset\, and the next two visitors in the line take over control of the robots. All visitors to the website can observe this interaction between the two robots happening in real time over a live feed\, as they wait on line or just view the site.\n\n\n\nThe project builds on AATB’s strong expertise in robotics systems\, web development and interactive installations.\n\nCome Shake Hands with Us!\n\nThe link to the interactive exhibition will be revealed during the exhibition opening event on Thursday\, May 28 .  \n\nThe Designers\n\nAATB\n\n\n\n\n\nIn 2018\, Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet started a collaborative practice together. They have been informally working alongside on a number of projects but a common will to explore specific themes emerged. The practice develops around the idea of Non-Industrial Robotics: Three years ago they started experimenting with industrial robotic systems such as robotic arms and industrial automation processes. Together they develop works exploring Human-Machine Interactions through the lens of kinetic and interactive devices. The studio is currently in Residence at Atelier Luma in Arles.\n\n\n\nAATB have been nominated for the Swiss Design Awards 2020.\n\nLink to their site: http://www.aatb.ch/\n\n\n\nAndrea Anner: Born in Zurich\, Switzerland\, graduated from ZHDK in 2008 with a BA in Visual Communication and in 2012 from ECAL with a MA in Art Direction: Type Design. Since 2014\, she collaborates with Martina Perrin as Anner Perrin\, a studio for Art Direction.\n\n\n\nThibault Brevet: Born in Lyon\, France\, graduated from ECAL in 2012 with a BA in Graphic Design and in 2015 with a MA in Visual Arts. He has been developing a practice at the intersection of art\, engineering and design. Since 2012\, he is programming websites.\n\nLink: http://www.aatb.ch/\n\nPartners\n\nHandshake: A Interactive Robotic Installation\, was initiated by swissnex Boston and AATB\, in close collaboration with the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York\, the Swiss Federal Office of Culture\, and swissnex San Francisco. This project and its global reach were made possible by the generous support of the global swissnex network\, Présence Suisse\, and Pro Helvetia. 
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SUMMARY: swissnex Fireside Chat: Imagining New Realities 002
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DESCRIPTION:Work\, education\, economy\, social life: the corona crisis is rapidly accelerating the digitization of important areas of society\, and it is deeply impacting every aspect of our lives. How will this structural transformation of society play out in the long term? In a series of fireside chats\, the trending informal yet structured interview discussions\, swissnex SF will match two thought-leaders with diverse perspectives\, from innovation\, science\, arts\, policy or technology\, to exchange ideas and insights\, and speculate together what our post-COVID-19 “new normal” might look like.\n\n\n\n\n\nThe second edition of swissnex San Francisco’s digital initiative\, hosted by our CEO Gioia Deucher\, matched a Swiss design icon\, Yves Béhar\, Founder and CEO of fuseproject with a world leading biodiversity researcher\, Michael Schaepman\, the designated President of the University of Zurich as of August 1st 2020. \n\n\n\nThis event is taking place online. Register via Zoom to get our swissnex Fireside Chat: Imagining New Realities 002 Zoom link.\n\nProgram\n\nSan Francisco\n\n08:30am — Introduction by Gioia Deucher\, CEO swissnex San Francisco\n\n08:35am — Discussion with Yves Béhar\, Founder and CEO of fuseproject and Prof. sc. nat. Michael Schaepman\, Vice President of Research at University of Zurich\n\n09:05am — Q&A\n\n09:15am — Conclusion  \n\n\n\nSwitzerland\n\n05:30pm — Introduction by Gioia Deucher\, CEO swissnex San Francisco\n\n05:35pm — Discussion with Yves Béhar\, Founder and CEO of fuseproject and Prof. sc. nat. Michael Schaepman\, Vice President of Research at University of Zurich\n\n06:05pm — Q&A\n\n06:15pm — Conclusion\n\nModerator\n\nGioia Deucher\n\nGioia Deucher is the CEO of swissnex San Francisco. Gioia’s professional journey has taken her to various countries\, from Colombia and Switzerland to the U.S. and Palestine\, and most recently Brazil. Starting her post-university career in microfinance and sustainable investing working for small and large investment firms\, Gioia has dedicated the last decade to fostering cross-continental collaborations with a view to inspire and strengthen Switzerland’s innovation ecosystem. Before setting out to build the first Latin American swissnex office Brazil in 2013\, she headed the Startup and Innovation team at swissnex in San Francisco\, where she returned to as CEO\, in July of 2017. A curated innovation platform hosting 40+ startups\, designers\, scientists and corporates\, swissnex’s Bay Area office acts as a convener for thought-provoking conversations on how technology and innovation shape our world\, and fosters international connections and collaboration for meaningful action. Gioia holds a Master’s degree in International Relations from the Graduate Institute (IUHEID) in Geneva\, Switzerland\, and a second Master’s in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School in Medford/Boston\, USA\, and has completed continuing education courses in Design Thinking and Venture Capital. She acts as the President of the cancer survivor storytelling platform MySurvivalStory and is an advisory board member of DART Labs.\n\nBios\n\nYves Béhar\n\nYves Béhar\, Founder and CEO of fuseproject\, is a designer and entrepreneur who believes that integrated product\, brand and experience design are the cornerstones of any business. Béhar has pioneered design as a force for positive social and environmental change. His humanitarian work includes the One Laptop Per Child and See Better to Learn Better\, which has distributed 6 million free corrective eyeglasses to schoolchildren in Mexico for the last 10 years. He received the INDEX Award for these projects\, making him the only designer to have received the award twice. Yves has also been at the forefront of entrepreneurial venture design\, co-founding Forme Life\, August\, and Canopy\, as well as partnering with numerous start-ups such as the Happiest Baby Snoo\, Uber\, Cobalt\, Desktop Metal\, Sweetgreen and many others. Other collaborations with renowned partners such as Herman Miller\, Movado\, Samsung\, Puma\, Issey Miyake\, Prada\, SodaStream\, Nivea and many others have also received international acclaim.\n\n\n\nMichael Schaepman\n\nProf. Dr. sc. nat. Michael Schaepman studied geography\, experimental physics\, and informatics at the University of Zurich and earned his doctoral degree at the Department of Geography of UZH in 1998. Following postdoctoral work at the University of Arizona in Tucson\, USA\, he returned to the UZH Department of Geography in 2000 to head up a research group. In 2003\, Michael Schaepman was appointed professor of geographic information science at the Department of Environmental Sciences at Wageningen University (Netherlands)\, where as of 2005\, he was academic head of the Center for Geoinformation. He has been professor of remote sensing at the Department of Geography (Remote Sensing Laboratories) at the University of Zurich since 2009. His research priorities include Earth observation\, remote sensing\, and spectroscopy to measure biodiversity from space. Michael Schaepman was appointed Vice Dean and then Dean of the Faculty of Science in 2014 and 2016\, respectively. Since August 2017 he has been the member of the Executive Board of the University responsible for the areas of research\, innovation and academic career development.\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n 
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