Naomi Ehrich Leonard and Susan Marshall, with María Santos, Sarah Witzman, Isla Xi Han, and Kathryn Wantlin, bring to Pink Noise Projects: “Rhythm Bots”, a work at the intersection of multi-robot dynamics, human-robot interaction and art.

This collaboration led to questions about the possibilities for rhythmic connection between humans and robots.

More recently, Naomi collaborated with Susan on her performance installation “ Rhythm Bath”, which offers an inviting space connecting audiences and performers through synchronized and rhythmic human movement. Naomi and Susan first collaborated in 2010 on the site-specific performance piece “ Flock Logic”, which explores what happens when human movers apply the rules used in models of flocking birds and schooling fish. Susan Marshall, choreographer, professor and Director of Dance at Princeton University, uses recursive syntax and details of touch, intention, gravity, and gaze to probe the complexities of human behavioral systems and interpersonal relationships. Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, studies and designs the “ logic” behind collective motion and decision-making dynamics of groups in nature, robotics, and dance.

Rythm bots