I will be speaking on the Automation Gone Awry panel/conversation/dialogue facilitated by the Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX) for CODAME’s ART + TECH Festival 2018 #ARTOBOT. The Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX) is facilitating a dialogue between new media artists, practitioners, theorists, and festival attendees explicating the significance of accidents, mistakes, and so-called ‘left-turns’ in the quest towards automation. How do such missteps influence current thinking on robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence – either technically or societally?