Staff Profiles

Introductory Profile:

Petra Gemeinboeck is currently investigating the dramatic potential of autonomous robotic agents as performers of emergent social narratives. Previously, she has developed immersive virtual spaces that experimented with feminist and postcolonial concepts of the body. Her locative and sensor-based interactive works explored the paradoxical ground common to both intervention and surveillance. Petra’s works implicate participants in negotiation scenarios in which they are challenged to face, conspire with or perhaps even solicit a machine-generated co-performer. They have been exhibited internationally at venues including Archilab (FR), Ars Electronica (AT), Gallery Fabrica (GB), ICC Tokyo (J), MCA Chicago (IL, USA), and the Thessaloniki Biennale (GR).