Empathic Swarm: Reward and Punishment (Work in Progress, 2021)

50 autonomous robots act as a swarm and react to positive and negative feedback from their environment. Within their artistic work Katrin Hochschuh and Adam Donovan are particularly interested in human-machine interaction. As part of the residency, they want to fill their system with life and investigate different scenarios. How does the artificial intelligence of the swarm learn and what influence do the various interests of its human mentors have?