8-10 December, 2016 CTSA, UCI Director – Simon Penny Academic manager – Kelly Donahey This conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group including cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, philosophers of mind, physiologists, psychologists, philosophers, anthropologists, computer scientists, artists and designers to explore emerging cognitive neuroscience and theories of embodied cognition. The goal …
Orthogonal is a transdisciplinary research project involving anthropology, hydrodynamics and aerodynamics, design prototyping, experimental structures and materials science, traditional and contemporary artisanal practices, sustainability and ‘critical technical practice’ (Agre) Micronesian and other Pacific island communities have a long (and almost lost) tradition of fast asymmetrical multihull sailboats (generally referred to …
by Simon Penny in press with MIT Press (release date Fall 2017) The goal of this book is to encourage the reconceptualisation and retheorisation of arts practices based in concepts arising out of the post-cogntivist revolution of the past quarter century. Key to this agenda is the following problematic: The …
What Social Robots Can and Should Do. Simon Penny was a keynote speaker. International Research Conference Robophilosophy 2016 / TRANSOR 2016: Aarhus, Denmark, October 17-21, 2016 http://conferences.au.dk/robo-philosophy/
Exhibition at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, co-curated by Simon Penny and David Familian. Oct 1 2016 -Jan21, 2017 http://beallcenter.uci.edu/exhibitions/embodied-encounters
After the success of the OK Go music video “This Too Shall Pass” with its big-box sized Rube Goldberg machine (now with 4 million hits), ACE alum Brett Doar has gone on to make other contraptions, the most recent being for an ad for GoldieBlox engineering toys for girls. Eric …
Simon Penny was awarded the 2013 UCI Chancellors Award for excellence in undergraduate research for his work mentoring the Therabot Project under the UROP CALIT2 Multidisciplinary Design Project (MDP) initiative. The Therabot project pursued the prototyping of an autonomous robot with wifi two way video and bed-based control to serve …
The Art dept Mechatronics lab (CAC G010) opened for its first class in Winter quarter 2011. The lab is a purpose – designed electronics, electromechanics, robotics and interactive systems lab which can seat up to 22 students at independent electronics workstations. The lab also has a small mill, lathe …