A choreographer, dancer, and roboticist, Catie Cuan is a pioneer in the nascent field of ‘choreorobotics’. She recently completed her PhD in the Mechanical Engineering department at Stanford University, where she also earned a Master’s of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Her artistic and research work focuses on robot learning, human-robot interaction, and dance. She has held artistic residencies at the Smithsonian Arts + Industries Building, Everyday Robots (Google X), TED, and ThoughtWorks Arts. Catie is a prolific robot choreographer, having created performances and art installations with nearly a dozen different robots, from a massive ABB IRB 6700 industrial robot to a tabletop IDEO + Moooi robot. Upcoming this year, Catie will be an Artist-in-Residence at renowned dance festival Jacob’s Pillow and iconic science and arts museum the Exploratorium. Her artistic work has been shown nationally and internationally, at venues such as the Smithsonian, the Ferst Center, Pioneer Works, and Joe’s Pub. As a dancer, she has performed with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, and in dozens of other contemporary, commercial, and musical theater projects.

Ken Goldberg is an artist and professor of engineering at UC Berkeley who explores the boundaries between the digital and the natural.  His artworks include a live garden tended by a robot controlled by over 100,000 people via the internet, a 1/1 millionth scale model of Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, and award-winning short documentary films about robots and Jewish identity. Ken's projects have been exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, Venice Biennale, Pompidou Center (Paris), Walker Art Center, Ars Electronica (Linz Austria), ZKM (Karlsruhe), ICC Biennale (Tokyo), Kwangju Biennale (Seoul), Artists Space, and The Kitchen (New York). Ballet Mori, an improvisational performance work created with dancer Muriel Maffre, engaged the Earth as a living medium and conductor for dance (winner of the Isadora Duncan Award, 2007). He is Founding Director of Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium and has held visiting positions at San Francisco Art Institute, MIT Media Lab, and Pasadena Art Center. Ken was awarded the National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award in 1994, the NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship in 1995, and was named IEEE Fellow in 2005. His work is in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum. Ken is represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco. Ken's upcoming exhibition with Tiffany Shlain, "Ancient Wisdom for Future Ecologies," will be included in the Getty Museum’s "Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide" (PST ART) art event in Fall 2024 at The Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles.