Keyword Index
Selected keyword: robotics
Work: Autopoiesis
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: Autopoiesis, is a robotic sculpture installation commissioned by the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, Finland as part of Outoaly, the Alien Intelligence Exhibition curated by Erkki Huhtamo, 2000. It...
Work: Autotelematic Spider Bots
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: Artificial Life Robotic Sculpture Series
The Autotelematic Spider Bots 2006, is a new artificial life robotic installation. It consists of 10 spider-like sculptures that interact with the public in...
Work: Be prepared tiger
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: Re-engeneering and Re-enactment of a stealthboat as shown in a Tamil Tiger propaganda video footage. The Tamil Tiger video footage was found on internet sites of private analysts of clandestine...
Work: Bio-Robotic Symbiosis
Artist: Melanitis, Yiannis
Comment: An integrated environment for animal-machine co-existence
Bio-robotic symbiosis features a hexapod robot, two laboratory mice and the audience. The robot and the mice co-exist in a transparent...
Work: bug[lab]02
Artist: Cadet, France
Comment: The installation gathers a group of 10 robotic dogs in which some punctual and random bugs emerge (this is almost a pleonasm) in order to ironically illustrate the potential consequences of some...
Work: Carry On
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: Paranoia is the state of the world. Propelled by our media, we have re-assumed our place in the jungle, afraid of the invisible predator all around us. Constantly watching and watched, what is it...
Work: Do robotic cats dream of electric fish?
Artist: Cadet, France
Comment: Nemo, the robotic fish, is swimming imperturbably in the screen, which is his fish tank as well.
The robotic cat is sitting in front of the screen and he is watching it as he was looking at a real...
Work: dog[lab]01
Artist: Cadet, France
Comment: In this experimental space, seven little chimerical robots are evolving, some animals which have the general morphology of a dog but some have bovine coats provided with horns (mad cow disease?),...
Work: Elevator's Music
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: The site-specific installation “Elevator’s Music”, visits the topic of synthetic creatures becoming sentient. What if centuries from now, we had the technology to make any machine self-aware? In this...
Work: Extruder
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: The automobile is a fascinating machine. Since its inception the automobile has driven us faster and faster into the future. Carving out the modern world, it has done brilliantly, reproducing itself...
Work: Gaude Mihi
Artist: Cadet, France
Comment: Blending into society, robots are now becoming more and more life-like. They are claiming to be acting as moral agents and have now the ability and desire to experiment social activities and...
Work: Hunting Trophies
Artist: Cadet, France
Comment: "Hunting Trophies" is a project showing a collection of eleven hunting trophies hung on the wall. These trophies are similar to those that hunters could exhibit proudly in their living room but here...
Work: Looking for God
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: The origin of the God-idea has always been a hot topic amongst those involved in seeking truth. Creationists will argue that the God-idea is built into us, believing that we were all made in the...
Work: Mulholland Drive
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Three artists drove Los Angeles' famous Mulholland Drive with five types of sensors--measuring the tilt, direction, altitude, speed and engine sound of the car. The captured data was then used to...
Work: My Black Cat
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: In a series of 'test cases', Knowbotic Research investigate the construction of identity, power, and communication.The installation Black_Cat confronts the constitution of subjectivity under the...
Work: Passion5
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: The intervention of Knowbotic Research includes several, sometimes contradictory levels. On the one hand, it reflects political culture in the early 21st Century, pointing to its limits. mutate to a...
Work: Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
Artist: Bismarck, Julius von
Comment: The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings.
The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven...
Work: Petit Mal
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: An interview with Artist Simon Penny about his robotic sculpture, Petit Mal.
Work: Petit Mal
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: Although much work has been done in the field of screen-based interactive art, the mode of interaction in these works is confined by the very existence of image material on a screen, the so called...
Work: Power and Water
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: The installation included a custom-designed robotic painting machine, large hand-painted images, and several images painted with the robot. All images were from events surrounding the building of the...
Work: Prometheus/Hysterical Duet-
Interactive Performance
Artist: Melanitis, Yiannis
Comment: A male and a female body (Yiannis Melanitis, Marianna Ranis), are suspended 6m from the ground facing each other. An electronic device (a hexapod robot) is attached to the woman's belly pointing...
Work: Robotica - IV: Control Inside The Panopticon
Artist: Stanza
Comment: A world premier of Stanza’s “Robotica: Control inside the panopticon” at The Victoria And Albert Museum, London.
A playful robot installation - with performative and interactive aspects - that...
Work: Room for Manoeuvre
Artist: Knowbotic Research
Comment: The exhibition 'Room for Manoeuvre' features new works by Knowbotic Research (KRcF), known for their advanced network and media projects since the founding of the artist group in 1991. In a specially...
Work: Sleep Walking
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: In the next thirty years we will see more robotic technology integrated into our society, furthering our experience of reality through agency. Robots already go beyond the limitations of our bodies....
Work: SOLAR
Artist: Leonardo Crescenti, Rejane Cantoni
Comment: Imagine entering a machine, supplying the co-ordinates of a city and a specific moment in time and as a response you receive the direction, the intensity and the sensation of heat and light that the...
Work: Spider Haus
Artist: Rinaldo, Ken E.
Comment: Spider Haus is a transpecies communication artwork constructed of stereo lithography plastic and a common house spider (Theridiidae) in the winter and an orbital web spider in the summer. It is...
Work: Stupid Robot
Artist: Penny, Simon
Comment: Designed to annoy, reminiscent of a legless beggar, Stupid Robot shakes a can of metal parts noisily when approached.
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 2: Lenticular Bicycle
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: Lenticular Bicycle is the first sculpture in the series to use human energy. The pedal-powered movie references the ingenuity and resourcefulness of the hacked bicycles that are roughly converted for...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 3: Praxinoscope Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The 19th century Praxinoscope consisted of a circular beveled mirror reflecting a series of animation frames. When the device is spun, a moving image appears on the mirror. Using wind as the power...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 4: Shadow Play
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The silhouettes of the ancient art of Shadow Play are achieved by light penetrating a translucent screen, and this sculpture uses the rotation of the windmill as the power to generate the backlight...
Work: Sustainable Cinema No. 5: Dual Windmill
Artist: Hessels, Scott
Comment: The Dual is an optical illusion in which two disks rotate in opposite directions; the front disk is black with slits that act as a shutter, the rear disk contains the animation frames. When the disks...
Work: Terrain 01
Artist: Gabriel, Ulrike
Comment: A metal ring with 3-meter diameter is placed on the floor, and thirty to forty 20cm long insect like robots are moving in there. The robots start moving when activated as the solar sensors on their...
Work: The Mercury Project
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: Mercury Project combined robotics and archaeology in an interactive art installation. To our knowledge, the Mercury Project was the first system that allowed WWW users to remotely view and alter the...
Work: The Ornitorrinco Project
Artist: Kac, Eduardo
Comment: Eduardo Kac pioneered telepresence art in 1986, when he created his first wireless robot, a remote-controlled anthropomorphic figure through which human participants could engage in conversation. In...
Work: The Telegarden
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: The TeleGarden is an art installation that allows web users to view and interact with a remote garden filled with living plants. Members can plant, water, and monitor the progress of seedlings via...
Work: Tillie/CybeRoberta
Artist: Hershman Leeson, Lynn
Comment: THE DOLLY CLONES
Tilllie, The Telerobotic Doll
1995-1998
http://www. lynnhershman.com/tillie
and
CybeRoberta
1970-1998
http://www.lynnhershman.com/doll2/
These two telerobotic...
Work: Unending Closure
Artist: Orellana, Fernando
Comment: The events that have unfolded since the turn of the century, in addition to the unending technological parade of innovation and the bloating of Media influence over the world has yielded not a people...
Work: Untitled
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: On a square lattice at least one coordinate of an equilateral triangle must be irrational. An irrational number has no finite numerical representation. An equilateral triangle represented on a...
