Projects
Talks, conferences, seminars, and community work.
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Talks
Communication Depends on Rhythm
In conversation with Caroline Nevejan, Amsterdam
The discussion is transformed in structure and format on the innovative website being-here.net.
Movement, Meaning and Memory
October 2016 · Maxwell Centre, University of Cambridge
A Performance Research talk with Elaine Westwick, Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, Satinder Gill and Michael Byrne, presented as part of the Cambridge Festival of Ideas.
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Cambridge LASER Talks @ CRASSH
Cambridge Leonardo Art and Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is an ongoing series of public conversations bringing artists, scientists, scholars and practitioners together at CRASSH to explore ideas at the intersection of art, science and technology, and their wider place in culture and society.
Cambridge LASER
Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous · Cambridge UK
About the series — its questions, launch event and selected LASERs to date.
Writing as Rhythm
Rhythm, Health and Wellbeing
The Known World
Arts in Residency
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AI & Society
AI & Society
Journal · Founded 1986
Social value, creativity, and the purpose of technology — explore the journal and forthcoming symposium.
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Conferences
Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age
26–28 June 2018 · University of Cambridge
Rhythm as Knowledge: A Transdisciplinary Symposium
Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age
6–8 July 2021 · British Society for Aesthetics Conference (virtual)
Chairs: Derek Matravers (Open University) and Satinder Gill (University of Cambridge).
AI & Society International Symposium
July 2026 · Al Akhawayn University, Ifrane
Marking four decades of scholarship, focusing on applied AI in the Global South, including themes like climate resilience, agriculture, and governance.
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Seminars
Performance and Wellbeing (Chair)
24 October 2016 · CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN) Seminar Series.
Narratives and Artificial Intelligence (Chair)
23 January 2018 · CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN) Seminar Series.
Performing Knowledge: The Mediating Body
18 January 2015 · CRASSH, University of Cambridge
Dr Satinder P. Gill (CMS) in conversation with Michael Byrne (CMPCP). Cambridge Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN) Seminar Series.
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Publications
AI & Society Publications
AI & Society · Selected entries
Editorials and articles from AI & Society — abstracts and links to read online.
Tacit Engagement: Beyond Interaction
Gill · Springer, 2015
On tacit knowing, dialogue, gesture and rhythm — and how the nature of interface itself must be reconsidered for human connectivity in the digital age.
The Role of Body Moves in Dialogue
Gill, Kawamori, Katagiri, Shimojima · RASK 12, 2000
On non-verbal communication, co-presence and coordination in dialogue.
The Engagement Space and Parallel Coordinated Movement
Gill · CKIR Working Papers, CKIR-1, 2002
A multi-activity gestural coordination analysis of the parallel coordinated move in conceptual drawing.
A Musical Improvisation Framework for Shaping Interpersonal Trust
Foubert, Gill, De Backer · Nordic Journal of Music Therapy, 2021
A practice-based SIT framework for trust as connection, pause and repair in music therapy.
Musical Interaction, Social Communication, and Wellbeing
Rabinowitch & Gill · Together in Music (Oxford), 2021
Synchrony experience in joint music-making and its role in social-emotional wellbeing.
Ethics of Ambience
Gill · Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, Vol. 4, 2009
On the ideologies driving ambient intelligence and the ethical guidelines its social pervasiveness demands.
Rosenbrock's Account of Causality and Purpose
Gill · in Human Machine Symbiosis (Springer)
A compilation of Howard Rosenbrock's works on causality, purpose and human-centred systems design, selected and annotated.
Designing for Knowledge Transfer
Gill · in Human Machine Symbiosis (Springer-Verlag), 1996
Two traditions of knowledge — cognitivist and human-centred — and what design as a process tells us about representing the practical and the personal.
Touching Sound: Vulnerability and Synchronicity
Gill · CHI'13 Workshop on Designing For and With Vulnerable People, Paris
On vulnerability as the inability to synchronise in time, and a shared musical instrument designed to surface moments of joint synchrony.
Body Rhythmic Entrainment and Pragmatics in Musical and Linguistic Improvisation Tasks
Himberg & Gill
An interdisciplinary study combining linguistic communication with music and movement — treating conversation as performance, and musical improvisation as akin to it.
Gesture and response in field-based performance
Sha & Gill · C&C '05, Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Creativity & Cognition, London, pp. 205–209
Ambience and immersive technological environments as a lens onto gesture, body and sense-making — developed through the example of TGarden, a responsive play space augmented by gesturally nuanced computational media.
Cognition, Communication and Interaction: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Interactive Technology
Gill (Ed.) · Human–Computer Interaction Series, Springer, 2007
An edited volume building a transdisciplinary research framework and methodology for interaction design — across cognition, communication and interaction.
Knowledge as Embodied Performance
Gill · in Cognition, Communication and Interaction (Springer, HCI Series), 2008, pp. 3–30
Knowledge as tacit knowing embodied in dialogue — utterances, gesture, movement, voice and mediating artefacts — and what this implies for designing interactive technologies that support joint action and joint attention.
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Projects
Prototyping Social Forms and Process Germ Bank
Curated by Sha Xin-Wei · Synthesis Lab, ASU
International collectives investigating alternative ways to engage via interfaces that better support our sociality, processes of learning, and wellbeing. The discussions and interactive performances/experiments draw on theories and practices.
Cambridge Creative Synergy
November 2024 — present
Funded by Cambridge City Council. For good mental health and wellbeing.
Collaboration on Rhythm Research
2018
Nevejan C., Sefkatli P., Cunningham S. 2018. City Rhythm, logbook of an exploration. Delft University of Technology.
Café Gallery Artipolis
Moivun, Croatia · November 2024