Reika Nicole McNish

Live Dance Performance Investigating the Feminine Cyborg Metaphor with a Motion-activated Wearable Robot

This paper presents artistic work that comments on the exploitation of feminine gender performance in technology, from the point of view of a particular artist, enabled by a wearable robotic device that creates an onstage cyborg character. The piece, entitled “Babyface” was created in residence in a robotics lab and h…