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Propagations, light robots as cellular automata

Propagations, Leo Nunez, leo_nunez_propagations.jpg

The basic mechanisms of artificial intelligence are still around, probably because there are still few real applications able to make a user think that a machine has some kind of "intelligence". So "organic" qualities are not yet generally associated with digital machines. Cellular automata (a grid of cells ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:32 PM - Feb 15/2010
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music . performance . robot . sound

SoleNoid ß, tap dance robotic concert

Peter William Holden, SoleNoid ß, solenoid_beta.jpg

The tap-dance rhythmic lines are the protagonists in SoleNoid ß by Peter William Holden. Eight glossy tap-dance shoes, placed symmetrically in a circle, are animated by a computer connected with circuits controlling electromechanical valves (solenoid valves) and compressed air hydraulic pistons. The "living" ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:54 AM - Nov 24/2009
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art . performance . robot

Suffering Machine, a robot suffering for your grief

Ricardo Nascimento, Suffering Machine, suffering_machine.jpg

Playing off the subtleties of human attachment to animate objects and creatures, Ricardo Nascimento's "Suffering Machine" remains a relevant reminder of the trials and tribulations that we often discover with the technological apparatus and detritus that occupies our daily existence. His "Suffering Machine" is a robot consisting of three arms or ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 12:15 AM - May 6/2009
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Machines that Almost Fall Over, la vita in una metafora meccanica

Michael Kontopoulos, Machines that Almost Fall Over, machines_that_almost_fall_over.jpg

Machines that Almost Fall Over di Michael Kontopoulos é una scultura fatta di diverse tavole angolari con un semplice meccanismo ad orologeria montato su che alza e poi lascia cadere un martello sulla parte piatta della tavola centrale e verticale. Ciascuna delle scultura dondola lentamente su un punto che fa cardine, quasi cadendo in avanti, poi dondolano all'indietro e si ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 09:36 AM - Oct 3/2008
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art . hacktivism . performance . robot

Double-Taker (Snout), surveillance meeting humor and randomness

Golan Levin,Double-Taker (Snout), double_taker_snout.jpg

Media artist and Associate Professor of Electronic Time-Based Art at Carnegie Mellon University Golan Levin, has created the "Double-Taker (Snout)", an interactive installation that examines the connections between trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:23 AM - Sep 30/2008
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Totemobile makes Transformers seem tame

Totemobile, Chico Macmurtrie, totemobile.jpg

The "Totemobile" by Brooklyn- based Mexican - American artist and roboticist, Chico Macmurtrie, is a kinetic transforming robot that morphs a Citroen DS automobile into a 20-meter tall "totem" with human-like features. Similar in conception to the giant robots from ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:01 PM - Apr 9/2008
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art . book . robot . science . software

(edited by Katharina Dohm, Heinz Stahlhut, Max Hollein and Guido Magnaguagno) - Kunstmaschinen Maschinenkunst, Art Machines Machines Art

Art Machines Machine Art, Kustmaschinen, Machinenkunst, art_machines_machines_art.jpg

book - Kehrer Verlag - ISBN 9783939583400
Art Machines Machine Art photo set
The autonomous physical production made by a machine has often been perceived as "magic". The perception that a non-organic entity would produce something "new", when not "original" has already been vastly debated, but the fascination of the results is still a matter of fact, underlying some ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:37 PM - Apr 5/2008
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Spinal Rhythms, autonomous embodied evolution of a biomimetic robot's rhythmic motion behavior

Eva Schindling, Spinal Rhythms, spinal_rhythms.jpg

Reflections on artificial life are mostly centered around the dogma of digital representation: only what can be represented on a screen can be tackled and understood. This kind of approach clashes with all artificial lifeforms with a materiality of their own, such as robots, whose physical consistency forces us to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:58 AM - Nov 6/2007
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Ex Pharao, mechanically manipulating an orchestra

Ex Pharao, André and Michel Décosterd, ex_pharao.jpg

Ex Pharao is a re-elaboration of the Moses und Aron serial work by Arnold Schönberg and of the lives of Moses and his brother Aaron, their relation with the people of Israel and the internal struggle that pitted the two brother against each ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:02 PM - Jul 9/2007
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art . hacking . media . music . robot . sound

Uokand (Tapelake), playing with a pool of tapes.

Dan Perrone, Uokand, Tapelake, uokand_tapelake.jpg

Audiotapes, the medium that offered to millions of users endless possibilities to personally recombine sounds and emotions and introduced the concept of self-produced compilation, look like a distant memory. The MP3 generation, used to process huge quantities of digital data with a few simple clicks, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 08:00 AM - May 24/2007
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Morpho Towers, Two Standing Spirals

The famous 'Protrude Flow', permanently exhibited at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz, is one of the few spectacular electromagnet sculptures artworks. Its ability to model rounded forms out of a liquid black 'ferrofluid', that stands trembling for a while and then become plain liquid again, was able to ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 01:31 PM - May 4/2007
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art . biotech . mobile . net . robot

Independent Robotic Community, social network for robots and humans

Ricardo Iglesias, Gerald Kogler, Independent Robotic Community, independent_robotic_community.jpg

In a special edition of El Pais Digital reporting the Arco festival in 2001, the Spanish artist Ricardo Iglesias, one of the net art pioneers in his country, said that nothing or almost nothing ("only cliché") can be said about net art in five or six lines. However he mentioned a series of isolated topics that ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 11:34 PM - Mar 7/2007
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art . robot . visual

Giant Painting Machine

A huge machine to create abstract paintings. This is the shape of the Giant Painting Machine, a project by Douglas Irving Repetto. It's an electro-mechanic system mainly assembled with waste materials. It ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 05:37 PM - Feb 8/2007
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art . robot . sound

The Robotic Percussionist

Let's imagine a typical situation: a jam session where talented musicians play all their creativity improvising, listening to each other and reacting to inputs. However let's think about the trio (AKA triumvirate) consisting of Ellington and Mingus with a variation at the ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Feb 3/2006
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Silverfish Stream, relational sound spheres

Silverfish Stream, Costanza Silva, silverfish_stream.jpg

Constanza Silva is a new media artist who creates complex interactive environments where sound and robotic are the essential elements of a connected network. Silverfish Stream is her most recent artwork and, according to the author, 'it is a sensual, poetic, ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Jan 16/2006
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ArtBots 2003, artistic robots

The ArtBots 2003 festival, held at the Eyebeam Gallery in New York, has just ended. It was the second edition of the successful exhibition of creative robots which, last year, was held at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn (New York). This year, the projects ... [ Continue ]

Posted at 03:49 PM - Jul 21/2003
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