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Robert Twomey is an artist and engineer exploring the poetic intersections of human and machine perception, particularly how emerging technologies can transform sites of intimate life. His work integrates traditional forms with new technologies to examine questions of empathy, agency, and desire in human-machine interaction. He leads the Machine Cohabitation Lab and has presented his work at prominent venues such as SIGGRAPH, CVPR, ISEA, NeurIPS, HRI, and SLSA, as well as at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University and has participated in the Nokia Bell Labs Experiments in Art and Technology program. Twomey has received various grants and support from the National Science Foundation, California Arts Council, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, and NVIDIA. He earned a B.S. from Yale University with majors in Art and Biomedical Engineering, an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from UC San Diego, and a Ph.D. in Digital Arts and Experimental Media from the University of Washington.
Administered by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Curricular groups include Climate-Ocean-Atmosphere (COAP), Geosciences (GEO), and Ocean Biosciences (OBP).