Justin Seipel
"Exhibition of student artifacts created for Dawn or Doom 2 "
September 21 – 28, 2015
Robot Futures is an exhibition of student work from the course AD41700 Robots, Art and Culture, taught collaboratively by Fabian Winkler (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design / Electronic and Time-Based Art) and Dr. Justin Seipel (Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering).
The artifacts in this exhibition were created by an interdisciplinary group of students with backgrounds ranging from art and design to computer science and engineering fields in the first three weeks of the Fall 2015 semester. They are sketches that investigate critically the "risks and rewards" of emerging robotic technologies and speculate on future narratives and realities they foreshadow. Rather than providing concrete answers or solutions, Robot Futures invites viewers to see robotic technologies as important reflections of our own culture and ask questions about their future socio-technological impact.
Bio: Justin Seipel completed his undergraduate degree in mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He earned his PhD at Princeton University where he was an NSF graduate fellow. Prior to coming to Purdue, Dr. Seipel did postdoctoral work at the University of California- Berkeley where he developed models to better understand the neuro-mechanics of legged locomotion and to derive biologically-inspired design principles for legged robots.