A collaboration between the labs of Queen Mary’s Cognitive Science Research Group, RoboThespian’s creators Engineered Arts, and the open-access spaces of Hack The Barbican, the researchers are staging a stand-up gig where the headline act is a robot as a live experiment into performer-audience interaction. This research is part of work on audience interaction being pioneered by the Cognitive Science Group. It is looking at the ways in which performers and audiences interact with each other and how this affects the experience of ‘liveness’. The experiment with Robothespian is testing ideas about how comedians deliver their material to maximize comic effect. Tiernan Douieb — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n342MVFkavM Andrew O’Neill — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGjbmywaKMI Robothespian — http://www.robothespian.co.uk. Hack The Barbican http://hackthebarbican.org 5 – 31 AUGUST 2013 // ARTS + TECHNOLOGY + ENTREPRENEURSHIP Comedy Lab: Robot vs. Human. A Hack the Barbican Activity.