Faculty
Marc Böhlen
Associate Professor · Robotics / Critical Ambient Intelligence
lab: www.buffalo.edu/~mrbohlen/mediaroboticsindex.html
email: marcbohlen@acm.org
office phone: (716) 645-0940
- affiliations:
- co-founder, Media-Architecture-Computing Program
- co-founder, Emerging Practices MFA concentration
- acting member, Information and Computing Technology
- visiting artist, AILAB Zurich
Marc Böhlen is a trained stone mason, an art historian and a robotics engineer. Böhlen's practice is tightly coupled to engineering research in methodology and succinctly different from it in scope and critical focus; an ongoing effort to diversify machine culture and the discourses on it.
His work and contributions in both electronic arts as well as robotics and ambient system design have been recognized internationally. Recent publications include Robots with Bad Accents; Living with Synthetic Speech (Leonardo/MIT Press 2008), Second Order Ambient Intelligence (Amsterdam, IOS, 2009) and Ambient Intelligence in the City (Heidelberg, Springer 2009). Details at: www.realtechsupport.org