Marc Böhlen

Marc Böhlen, artist-engineer, is associate professor in the department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo and visiting professor at the AILAB in Zürich.

Böhlen's research is tightly coupled to robotics design in methodology and succinctly different from it in scope and critical focus, an ongoing effort to diversify machine culture. His work has been recognized in numerous awards and nominations including VIDA/ALIFE (winner 2004), Rockefeller New Media awards (nominated 2006 and 2007). Recent work has been presented at Satellite Voyeurism (Dortmund 2007), ISEA (San Jose 2006) and Subtle Technologies (Toronto 2006). Recent and upcoming publications include More Help from Strangers; Media Arts and Ambient Intelligence (IOS Press Amsterdam 2007), The House for the Computer for the 21st Century (I4/Frankfurt 2007) and Robots with Bad Accents, Living with Synthetic Speech (Leonardo/MIT Press 2008).