Encountering Robotic Art: The Social, Material, and Temporal Processes of Creation with Machines

• DOI: 10.1145/3706598.3713327
• Publication Date: 2025-04-24T04:35:25Z
• Authors: Yigang Qin; Yanheng Li; EunJeong Cheon

Robots extend beyond the tools of productivity; they also contribute to creativity. While typically defined as utility-driven technologies designed for productive or social settings, role robots in creative settings remains underexplored. This paper examines how participate artistic creation. Through semi-structured interviews with robotic artists, we analyze impact on processes and outcomes. We identify critical roles interaction, material properties, temporal dynamics facilitating Our findings reveal that creativity emerges from co-constitution robots, audiences within spatial-temporal dimensions. Based these insights, propose several implications socially informed, material-attentive, process-oriented approaches creation computing systems. These can inform domains HCI, including media art creation, craft, digital fabrication, tangible computing.