Creative AI Foundation: The Awakening of Robotic Art – Speaking&Panel
✨ Witness the Future of Creation: Where Robots Dance, AI Dreams, and Art Awakens!
Join us for The Awakening of Robotic Art—a groundbreaking hybrid experience blending live robotic performances, visionary artist talks, and provocative panel debates. See industrial arms transform into poets and dive into the minds of pioneers, merging silicon with soul. Be part of the conversation redefining creativity itself.
Admission to the event will begin at 16:45.
Please note that the event will commence precisely at 17:30, so we kindly encourage you to arrive a few minutes early to ensure a smooth and timely start.
Schedule：
Moderate and Pre-Session Installation (17:30-17:45): Adrian Notz (Board Member, Creative AI Foundation / Former curator AI+Art at ETH AI Center)
Session 1 – Introduction Talk (17:45-17:50): Florian Paul Koenig (Artist manager / Founder of NOA contemporary)
Session 2 – Artist Talk: Lecture on their works (presentation and videos) (17:50-18:20): AATB (Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet)
Session 3 – Artist Talk: On the production of this project (18:20-18:30): AATB (Andrea Anner and Thibault Brevet)
Session 4 – Talk: Collaboration of Human and Multimodal Embodied AI for Future Design (18:30-18:45): Jianwei Zhang (Member of the German National Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) / International Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering / Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg / Professor and the founding director of the Institute of Technical Aspects of Multimodal Systems at the University of Hamburg)
Session 5 – Talk (18:45-19:00): Yariv Adan (General Partner, Ellipsis Venture Capital / Former Senior Director PM at Google)
Session 6 – Panel Discussion (19:00-19:30): Moderator: Adrian Notz; Panelists: AATB, Florian Paul Koenig, Yariv Adan, Jianwei Zhang
* Throughout the event: Continuous robot performance
Session Networking and Apéro: 19:30-20:10
All participants are kindly requested to vacate the venue by 20:15
This event is part of the Zurich AI Festival, taking place from September 29 to October 4, 2025. Zurich AI Festival is a flagship initiative by the ETH AI Center, and Greater Zurich Area Ltd, co-created with the Canton of Zurich, Zurich Tourism, and leading partners from academia, industry, government, and the local AI ecosystem.
We look forward to welcoming you soon!
Creative AI Foundation Team & Zurich AI Festival Team