Kelly Dobson
Working in the realms of art, design, engineering, psychology and society, Kelly explores the relationships between people and machines. Kelly has received a Master of Science degree from MIT’s Visual Studies Program and is currently PhD candidate at the MIT Media Lab in the Computing Culture Group where she is developing a new body of work around the theme of Machine Therapy. Machine Therapy is in response to the overwhelmingly pervasive effects of machines in everyday life, not only their ubiquity but also their intimacy. Machine Therapy is about what machines do and mean for people other than what we consciously designed them to do and be used for. In her current work Kelly combines research in digital signal processing and machine learning, machine design, technology and society studies, and sound, visual and performance art.