Crowbot Jenny is a manga character. She is a socially-awkward girl who prefers to spend time surrounded by technology and animals rather than with humans. She built the Crowbot. Perched on her shoulder, the crow-shaped robot can vocalize a variety of crow calls to control and converse with her bird army
Category Archive: robots
Jen Hui Liao’s Self-Portrait Machine is a device that takes a picture of the sitter and draws it but with the model’s help. The wrists of the individual are tied to the machine and it is his or her hands that are guided to draw the lines that will eventually form the portrait
Dancing robots, inflatable birds, a robot that makes patterns using rubbish until its companion comes and throw everything away, shamrock clock and other VIDA awardees
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Material Beliefs takes emerging biomedical and cybernetic technology out of labs and into public spaces. Its members use design as a tool for public engagement, a mean to stimulate discussion about the value and impact of these new technologies which blur the boundaries between our bodies and materials
Where you’ll see a wall of robotic trophies, a robotic cat salivating in front of a virtual fish and a rocking robot having fun at the back of the gallery
Although Daniel Canogar is a media artist who’d deserve an interview about his own work, our conversation focused on the 11th edition of VIDA, a competition that rewards works of art produced with and commenting on artificial life technologies
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A robot engraves a habitat for fungi while a team of architectural conservators trap dust and dirt in latex in order to preserve and display it like a precious shroud
Kumao’s performative technologies generate artistic spectacles in order to visualize the unseen: psychological states, emotions, compulsions, thinking patterns, and dreams
A robot is dreaming, others are struggling to make a decision, an elevator appears to be self-aware and a vintage radio relentlessly searches for God. Welcome to the world of Fernando Orellana
All the videos of the VIDA competition winning artworks that were produced with or commented on artificial life technologies
An exhibition of media art works which invites us to consider the brain as a site for interpretation, for scientific and philosophical debates, for examining our relationship to the world – and for questioning our common sense.
Quirky robotic deer, moose, and zebra robotic trophies raise questions about human-animal relationship but also about the future integration of robots in our society
Fernando Orellana had his own brain activity registered while he was sleeping and transfered the data on a robot to determine its head positions and behaviour
A visit to the Cloaca retrospective at the Casino de Luxembourg. How works of art can mechanically produce other works of art that some might want to flush down the loo
Previously: Winners of the VIDA awards announced. Here is a list of the Honorary Mentions of VIDA, the […]
The winners of the VIDA awards have been made public this morning in Barcelona. The international competition on […]
My notes from Natalie Jeremijenko‘s talk at the New Cultural Networks conference, a one day event organized in […]
Aharon Ozery´s installation has peacefully invaded a big room at the Davide Gallo Gallery in Mitte, Berlin. The […]
Myriam Laplante gave a fantastic performance during the City of Women festival (well, that’s what everybody says cuz […]
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Will Work For Food is a project about labour and barter economy. The bread earner is a robot […]
Last episode of the Biorama day in Huddersfield where Capsula and the Digital Research Unit had invited artists […]
Today’s easy reading: Robbits, by Susanna Hertrich and Matthias Melitzki, aims to explore emotional qualities of interactive objects […]
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Yasutaro Mitsui with his own steel humanoid, early ’30s. Via Hugo Strikes Back (information about the picture found […]
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Many industrialized countries are about to suffer of the consequences of an ageing society. The rising costs of […]
A week ago or so, i read on boingboing and other blogs, many other blogs, about the work […]
More notes from my conversation with Antonio Cerveira Pinto, the curator of Bios 4. It’s probably the first […]
Yesterday i spent a few fantastic hours with Antonio Cerveira Pinto in Sevilla. He showed me around Bios4, […]
Yesterday i was hoping to attend Niklas Roy‘s presentation of his latest project at the UdK (University of […]
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Loving The Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots, by Timothy N.Hornyak (Amazon USA and UK.) Publisher’s […]
Yesterday i visited The Robots are Coming! People – Machines – Communication at the Museum for Communication in […]
A few weeks ago, Rafael Mizrahi told me about the 4th Kinnernet, a hyper-geek event organized each year […]
Last post before the big jump in no-web land. A nifty unmanned rescue robot that enters in places […]
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Andre Stubbe likes to program behaviour. Looking at his work during his studies at the digital media class, […]
Robot maniacs and fans of artificial intelligence, rejoice! The list of the winners of Vida 9.0, Art & […]
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