Riccardo Lardi
MA work
MA work
Reality Gap
In evolutionary robotics, robots are being 'grown'to solve specific problems within digital, simulated environments. But when they're 'bred' out of their virtual wombs and deployed in real life, such systems do not always behave as expected.
Digital simulations become hyper-sterile habitats for virtual, artificial creatures where they evolve and improve to eventually get promoted to excel in the real, physical world. What is the vocabulary to describe these 'life-like' entities? When do things become alive and how do we assess aliveness?
Reality Gap is a series of fictional learning environments for machines and a comment on the natural human reflex to anthropomorphise and empathically engage with artificial and abstract entities such as robots.
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MA Degree
School
School of Design
Programme
MA Design Interactions, 2016
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Riccardo Lardi is a London based designer and technologist, holding a Design Interactions MA from the Royal College of Art 2016 and an Interaction Design BA degree from Zurich University of the Arts 2012. He previously worked as a web engineer and interaction designer prior to coming to London. Lardi is curious about the intersection and boundaries of science and art when approached from a Design point of view, his work explores estrangement, the unfamiliar and uncanny on the crossing of human perception and Technology.
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Degrees
- BA (Hons) Interaction Design, Zurich University of the Arts, 2012