1. Neutrally Buoyant, Interactive Art Ryan T Alley, Cynthia Andujar Under the direction of: Dr. Andrew Fagg, Adam Brown This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. IIS/REU/0755462. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. ALAV Art Project—Jed Berk And with lots of help from: Josh Southerland

2. What is Interactive Art? The viewer is not only a bystander Both artist and viewers contribute to the art The goal of the piece is achieved through interaction Adam Brown and Andrew Fagg: Bion

3. Art and Science They evolve together Science provides art with the media

5. Our Project Goals: To create a socially interactive art installation

6. Our Project Goals: To create a socially interactive art installation How can we create behaviors that are engaging and expressive?

7. A social robot? How do we make a creature recognizably social? Now, how do we make a legless, floating creature unlike most things we’ve seen social? By exploring the boundaries of social behavior.

8. Our Project Tertiary Aspects: Neutrally buoyant Ornithopter (winged propulsion) Expressed as artificial life Utilizes reinforcement learning

9. Similar Projects Blubber Bots, Jed Berk (ALAV)

10. Similar Projects Blubber Bots, Jed Berk (ALAV)

11. Festo Bionic Learning Project: Air Penguins

13. Current Status Building a prototype Learning reinforcement learning Working on structure/design

15. Future Work Ornithopter wing design (we get to play with toys) Building a working breadboard-based blimp Visual system (face recognition, etc…) More learning!

16. One more thing…. Names: NeutrallyBuoyantInteractiveArt NBIA Flopter Gasbag Ornithopter Blimp Thing … *sigh*

17. Any questions?

20. I have a question. Has anyone thought of a name yet?

21. Fin.