Inauguration: Artwork with drawing robot at Ångström
- Date
- 25 September 2025, 10:00–11:00
- Location
- Ångström Laboratory, reception desk
- Type
- Cultural event
- Organiser
- Uppsala University, Public Art Agency Sweden and Akademiska Hus
- Contact person
- Johan Åhrgren
A temporary artistic installation will be on display during autumn 2025 at the Ångström Laboratory. At the opening on 25 September, you will have the opportunity to meet artist Tobias Bradford and representatives from Public Art Agency Sweden and Akademiska Hus, who are collaborating with Uppsala University on the project.
From Tobias Bradford's studio and his work on ‘Untitled (drawing is your only way to communicate)’, which will be presented at the Ångström Laboratory on 25 September.
Artist Tobias Bradford works with mechanical sculptures and, using simple means, scrap and rubbish, he manages to build machines that seem to come to life in a way that is both eerie and humorous. Students from the Human-Robot Interaction course are participating in the creation of the temporary public installation entitled “Untitled (drawing is your only way to communicate)” at the Ångström Laboratory.
Tobias Bradford's sculptures openly reveal their mechanical functionality. Yet there are small details – a movement, a surface, a glance – that evoke something unexpectedly human. In 2025, he developed an artistic design project for the Ångström Laboratory, commissioned by the Swedish Arts Council and Akademiska Hus.
In dialogue with students and teachers at the laboratory, and in close collaboration with Jacob Broms Engblom, artist and developer, and Andreas Hammar, lecturer in fine art with a focus on mechatronics and interactive technologies, Bradford has developed a drawing robot that, with the help of a local AI model with a complex internal emotional life, communicates with the outside world through illustration.
The sculpture is a reflection on the relationship between humans and machines and the relationship between reality, fiction and image, but also on the artist's own struggle within these borderlands.