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Christian Gützer 27-10-2021
We built a programme controlled robot (Shockbot Corejulio, Transmediale Award 2005) that creates
asthetic information out of dysfunction in the form of a visual output.
Shockbot Corejulio is built out of three main parts:
1st the programme that controls the shockbot,
2nd the circuit board, that operates, via relays,
(3rd) the motors that then move the shockbot.
Essential for the piece is the circular process between the computer and the shockbot. The computer
sends impulses to the robot that subsequently moves on it's tracks targeting random points within
the computer hardware.
At the point of contact a shortcircuit occurs creating a fault current.
This error is recognized as a command and in an attempt to interpret this disinformation,
the computer creates, together with the shockbot, random pictures on the display.
As the damage to the computer increases, there is a proportional rise of dysfunction to the controll
signal. This overload of errors ends in a total collapse of the system.
Christian Gützer: , 27-10-2021, in: Archive of Digital Art We built a programme controlled robot (Shockbot Corejulio, Transmediale Award 2005) that creates
asthetic information out of dysfunction in the form of a visual output.
Shockbot Corejulio is built out of three main parts:
1st the programme that controls the shockbot,
2nd the circuit board, that operates, via relays,
(3rd) the motors that then move the shockbot.
Essential for the piece is the circular process between the computer and the shockbot. The computer
sends impulses to the robot that subsequently moves on it's tracks targeting random points within
the computer hardware.
At the point of contact a shortcircuit occurs creating a fault current.
This error is recognized as a command and in an attempt to interpret this disinformation,
the computer creates, together with the shockbot, random pictures on the display.
As the damage to the computer increases, there is a proportional rise of dysfunction to the controll
signal. This overload of errors ends in a total collapse of the system.
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