Keyword Index
Selected keyword: robotic
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: Digital Body-Automata
Artist: Scott, Jill
Comment: Housed in a white, clinical environment, Digital Body- Automata is divided into three parts. These installations are called: A Figurative History (past mechanical transformation); Interskin (present...
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: Epidémie
Artist: Benayoun, Maurice
Comment: Rendre visible l’invisible
Parce que l’on parle ici de l’invisible qui détermine notre destin, il est important de lui donner une forme de visibilité.
Le danger réside dans l’incapacité du...
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: Inter Caetera Divina
Artist: Goldberg, Ken
Comment: Throughout the 5-day show, the robot arm drew world maps taken from the time of Columbus up through World War II. The title refers to the 1493 proclamation by Pope Alexander VI that divided the New...
Work: MIRROR | ESPELHO
Artist: Leonardo Crescenti, Rejane Cantoni
Comment: Imagine an optical device with a sensory field of 8 meters to 60 centimeters. Fixed to the wall, this mirror is programmed to constantly measure and react to your distance from it.
At 8 meters it...
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: 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: 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: 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...