The PPL Seminar Series brings together artists and scholars working in the intersection of the performing arts and astronautics to discuss their cutting edge research.
20 May 2025
Clock, Fall
Sydney Skybetter
Sydney Skybetter is an expert in choreorobotics, a portmanteau of choreography and robotics.
Choreorobotics considers how bodies in motion - human or otherwise - move through space and time to generate meaning. In his piece Clock, Fall, Skybetter dives into the relationships between dance history, emerging technologies of embodied artificial intelligence, and next-generation space habitations.
He will cover topics ranging from Boston Dynamics robots, Tesla's "Party Mode" and Optimus robots, parasitic aesthetic theory, the movie M3GAN, microgravity performance and a little bit of