JPF Members: Events Booking

Venue:
The Japan Foundation, Sydney

Can a robot produce art? Join us for an eye-opening talk by Prof Takashi Ikegami (University of Tokyo) on developing the world’s first android-led opera “Scary Beauty”, performed by Skeleton of Osaka University’s Ishiguro Lab, and consider the deeper implications and future possibilities for artificial intelligence, or AI, in the arts.

Venue:
The Japan Foundation, Sydney

Media designer Tomomi Ota presents her experience cohabitating with social robot Pepper and introduces her philosophy regarding human-robot interaction in this enlightening talk. A short interview chaired by Dr Yuji Sone, author of Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity, will follow the talk.

Venue:
The Japan Foundation, Sydney

While the Japanese concept of rinri is translated into English as ‘ethics’, basic ethics and rinri are conceptually different. This is natural given Japanese and Western societies fundamentally differ on cultural, philosophical and historical fronts.

At a time where the ubiquitous participation of robots in society is fast becoming a reality, how should we be ‘ethically’ adapting these new technologies for society? Robot sociologist and entrepreneur Naho Kitano proposes a humanities-based approach to answer this question, based on her extensive experience gained through launching and developing robotics business ventures in Japan.