# Event Details - **Event Name**: IDEAS Season Opening Event - BFF - Robert Twomey & Jesse Fleming - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm – Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Event Description**: A performance-lecture on the nature of LLMs, AI alignment problems, and frontiers of machine intimacy.About this EventOn Thursday, January 29, the Qualcomm Institute’s IDEAS series opens its new season with BFF by Robert Twomey & Jesse Fleming, a performance-lecture on the nature of LLMs, AI alignment problems, and frontiers of machine intimacy—conducted through a walk and talk with a robot dog.Thursday, January 29th – 5 PMAtkinson Hall - UCSD CampusAll IDEAS performances are free and open to the public.Jesse Reding Fleming is an artist, technologist, and educator working at the intersection of AI, XR, and contemplative media. His hybrid practice—spanning performance, installation, filmmaking, and tool-building—explores the boundary between self and other through perceptual technologies. He co-founded the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, where he directs the Awareness Lab and teaches in new media art. His work is in the Whitney Museum and Cedars-Sinai collections and has shown at MASS MoCA, the Hammer Museum, and Creative Time. Fleming has directed films for MoMA, the Guggenheim, and Bloomberg.jessefleming.com/ and awarenesslab.io/Robert Twomey is an artist and engineer exploring poetic intersections of human and machine perception, particularly how emerging technologies transform sites of intimate life. He has presented his work at SIGGRAPH (Best Paper Award), CVPR, ISEA, NeurIPS, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, and has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the California Arts Council, Microsoft, Amazon, HP, and NVIDIA. He is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Computing in the Arts and an Artist-in-Residence with the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination at UC San Diego, where he directs the Machine Cohabitation Lab.roberttwomey.com and cohab-lab.netReid Brockmeier is a creative technologist, visual effects artist, and programmer who explores a variety of mediums ranging from film to robotics and artificial intelligence and the intersections between them. He is currently a Creative Technologist for the Awareness Lab and Speculative Devices Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Reid is a graduate of the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts.About IDEAS:The Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences aims to encourage interdisciplinary performing, visual, and literary-artists, as well as engineers and scientists, to take advantage of the Qualcomm Institute’s advanced audio-visual facilities, services and personnel in staging performances and presentations of new and experimental works and research.Visit ideas.ucsd.edu for more information about the IDEAS program. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-diego/ideas-season-opening-event-bff-robert-twomey-and-jesse-fleming/100001979766466796 - **Event Categories**: art, entertainment, performances, fine-arts, literary-art, it, dog, artificial-intelligence - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fideas-season-opening-event-bff-robert-twomey-jesse-fleming-tickets-1979766466796 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: San Diego - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Atkinson Hall - **lat**: 32.8824069 - **long**: -117.2348172 - **full address**: Atkinson Hall, 3195 Voigt Drive, San Diego, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: IDEAS (https://allevents.in/org/ideas/25639441) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/87c51f6e1f6e70aa75092370237c8cf7f2323ad586fb3a5398d02f637d90bcfc-rimg-w1200-h800-dc141313-gmir.jpg?v=1767757526 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/ffc9871cb7f0e2008304e6472dc9116ed267068852c90b1a9d92af73778a46f9-rimg-w400-h400-dc121212-gmir.jpg?v=1767757526 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Thu, 29 Jan, 2026 at 05:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Atkinson Hall, 3195 Voigt Drive, San Diego, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** IDEAS - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, entertainment, performances, fine-arts, literary-art, it, dog, artificial-intelligence - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about IDEAS Season Opening Event - BFF - Robert Twomey & Jesse Fleming ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "IDEAS Season Opening Event - BFF - Robert Twomey & Jesse Fleming", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/87c51f6e1f6e70aa75092370237c8cf7f2323ad586fb3a5398d02f637d90bcfc-rimg-w1200-h800-dc141313-gmir.jpg?v=1767757526", "startDate": "2026-01-29", "endDate": "2026-01-29", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-diego/ideas-season-opening-event-bff-robert-twomey-and-jesse-fleming/100001979766466796", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Atkinson Hall", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "3195 Voigt Drive", "postalCode": "92093", "addressLocality": "San Diego", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "32.8824069", "longitude": "-117.2348172" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "A performance-lecture on the nature of LLMs, AI alignment problems, and frontiers of machine intimacy.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-01-29", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-diego/ideas-season-opening-event-bff-robert-twomey-and-jesse-fleming/100001979766466796" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/san-diego/ideas-season-opening-event-bff-robert-twomey-and-jesse-fleming/100001979766466796", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "IDEAS", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/ideas/25639441", "description": "Initiative for Digital Exploration of Arts and Sciences (IDEAS)The initiative aims to encourage interdisciplinary performing, visual, and literary-artists, as well as engineers and scientists, to take advantage of the Qualcomm Institute’s advanced audio-visual facilities, services and personnel in staging performances and presentations of new and experimental works and research. The institute will provide access to its venue and performance spaces, as well as access to a/v, event and communications personnel on an in-kind basis. IDEAS submissions go through a rigorous peer review by the IDEAS Program Committee, chaired by IDEAS Director Shahrokh Yadegari, with members appointed from among QI-affiliated faculty and graduate students from the UC San Diego departments of Music, Visual Arts, Theatre & Dance, or from schools and divisions in the sciences and engineering. Each winning proposal is also awarded an onsite residency lasting from a single day to a full week, depending on project scope (see “Proposals” section below for details). It is anticipated that the longer residencies will feature important new works. “The Qualcomm Institute has become a world-renowned venue for faculty and students to stage performances that could not be staged anywhere else,” says Yadegari, a professor of Music at UC San Diego. “The institute offers spaces and tools – from advanced spatialized 3D audio to large-scale video walls and immersive, virtual-reality environments – that can provide faculty, students, staff, and alumni with a new canvas for their technology-based performances.”" } ] } ] ```