Ken Goldberg and Catie Cuan's Breathless Reviewed in Forbes
"Are robots coming for us and our work?
The dystopian answer to that question is clearly “yes,” a perspective that has dominated our conversation about artificial beings ever since the word “robot” was introduced by Czech playwright Karel Čapek in his 1921 dark comedy, “R.U.R.” or “Rossum’s Universal Robots.” But the fear of machines replacing humans goes back even earlier, to the Industrial Revolution and the birth of the modern factory. It’s an anxiety we’ve been living with for a few hundred years."
Writes Benjamin Wolff in "Teaching Machines To Be Human, And Humans To Live With Machines," which reviews the stunning new choreography and performance by Catie Cuan and Ken Goldberg.
Dancer/choreographer/engineer Catie Cuan and artist/researcher Ken Goldberg did in an eight-hour time and motion performance called “Breathless: Catie and the Robot” that premiered on December 16 at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, New York.