Fellowship at CAVS and CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge MA, 2004-2007
From the year 2004 to 2007, Pia Lindman was Research Fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Lindman collaborated with researchers at the Humanoid Robotics Group at CSAIL, in order to create artwork around the ways the researchers were relating to themselves as researchers and to their object of study, which was a creation of their own - a humanoid robot.
Lindman experimented with understanding the part protocol and part improvised life of a humanoid robot through the mediation of her own transferred embodiment and the relational projections playing themselves out between the creators (the researchers), the robot, and the artist.
Based on her re-enactments, Lindman created a series of drawings and performances, in which she embodies the humanoid robots Domo built by Aaron Edsinger and Mertz built by Lijin Aranda.