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Speakers Welcome Reception

    • Date
    7 July 2026
    Timeframe
    19:30 - 22:30
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    3 hours
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    We are delighted to host our distinguished speakers at the Speakers Welcome Reception – an evening dedicaed to celebrating and honouring your important contributions to this global movement.

    Enjoy a warm and elegant gathering alongside fellow thought leaders, innovators, and change-makers driving positive impact through AI.

    Bionic and the Wires transforms the hidden electrical activity of plants and fungi into live music and movement, revealing the intelligence and responsiveness of the natural world. Using custom‑engineered bionic arms and biosonification devices, they convert subtle fluctuations in bio‑electrical conductivity into musical expression.
    Their work challenges the assumption that creativity is an exclusively human domain. Recent research shows that plants and fungi exhibit forms of decision‑making, memory, and communication. By giving these organisms “hands” and instruments, they make their internal processes visible and audible, inviting audiences to reconsider what intelligence and creativity can look like beyond the human.
    In this keynote demonstration, BATW will showcase how living organisms generate real‑time musical and visual output on stage. The performance bridges art, science, and technology, offering a poetic yet scientifically grounded exploration of bioelectricity, plant cognition, and post‑humanist ideas.
    Bionic and the Wires has performed internationally, including at Berlin Fashion Week, the UN Biodiversity Conference, and the Deutsches Museum. They have over 150 thousand followers across all platforms and their videos have been viewed millions of times. Their work aims to inspire curiosity, spark dialogue, and expand public understanding of the living world at a moment when rethinking our relationship with nature and technology is more urgent than ever.
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    The Robot Cellist is a non-human musical performer situated at the intersection of instrument, performer, and scenographic presence. Comprising two industrial robotic arms playing a cello, it forms a system with its own sonic and gestural logic—distinct from, yet informed by, human performance practices.
    Oscula continues composer Fredrik Gran’s long-term exploration of this system’s expressive potential. The work foregrounds techniques, tensions, and resonances that emerge from the robot’s physical constraints and affordances: bowing geometries, unstable timbres, and articulations shaped by precision and friction.
    Rather than replicating human musicianship, the project is driven by what the robot can do differently—developing new musical gestures, idioms, and forms of interaction native to the machine. Through iterative composition and system-specific experimentation, the robot cellist has evolved into a singular instrumental voice.
    Presented at the AI for Good Global Summit, Oscula invites audiences to encounter an unfamiliar performer—one shaped not by breath or muscle, but by code, torque, and compositional intent.

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