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The social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for th... more The social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for the elderly share a fundamental anthropocentric bias: they are designed to be benign, to facilitate a transaction that aims to be both useful to and simple for the human. At a time when intelligent machines are becoming a tangible prospect, such a bias does not leave much room for exploring and understanding the ongoing changes affecting the relation between humans and our technological environment. Can art robotsrobots invented by artists-offer a non-benign-by-default perspective that opens the field for a machine to express its machinic potential beyond the limits imposed by an anthropocentric and market-driven approach? The paper addresses these questions by considering and contextualising early cybernetic machines, current developments in social robotics, and art robots by the author and other artists.
Paper delivered at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, Br... more Paper delivered at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, Broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds.
Performance given at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, ... more Performance given at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, Broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds.
The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans a... more The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans and machines, a subject he explores with self-made machines. The paper describes the aims, method, and context of Biting Machine, a performance art experiment in human-robot interaction loosely based on Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) where the artist shared a space for several days with a wild coyote. Biting Machine will be delivered as series of durational performances for an autonomous mobile robot and a human, where the robot will take the role occupied by the coyote in Beuys’ piece.
Selection of exhibition fliers. A DVD of The Heart and the Chip performance lecture is also avail... more Selection of exhibition fliers. A DVD of The Heart and the Chip performance lecture is also available to view on site at Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Article published in Proceedings of International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2018): Insp... more Article published in Proceedings of International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2018): Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation available open access at http://www.liveinterfaces.org/2018/ICLI2018.pdf
... performances and exhibitions. The Robotic Ears described below are my first operational perfo... more ... performances and exhibitions. The Robotic Ears described below are my first operational perfor-mance machine to be powered by a microcontroller. Their program runs on a Microchip Pic 16F628, located in the control box of the ears. ...
The social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for th... more The social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for the elderly share a fundamental anthropocentric bias: they are designed to be benign, to facilitate a transaction that aims to be both useful to and simple for the human. At a time when intelligent machines are becoming a tangible prospect, such a bias does not leave much room for exploring and understanding the ongoing changes affecting the relation between humans and our technological environment. Can art robotsrobots invented by artists-offer a non-benign-by-default perspective that opens the field for a machine to express its machinic potential beyond the limits imposed by an anthropocentric and market-driven approach? The paper addresses these questions by considering and contextualising early cybernetic machines, current developments in social robotics, and art robots by the author and other artists.
Paper delivered at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, Br... more Paper delivered at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, Broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds.
Performance given at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, ... more Performance given at (re)Actor 2: The Second International Conference on Digital Live Art, 2007, Broadcasting House, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds.
The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans a... more The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans and machines, a subject he explores with self-made machines. The paper describes the aims, method, and context of Biting Machine, a performance art experiment in human-robot interaction loosely based on Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) where the artist shared a space for several days with a wild coyote. Biting Machine will be delivered as series of durational performances for an autonomous mobile robot and a human, where the robot will take the role occupied by the coyote in Beuys’ piece.
Selection of exhibition fliers. A DVD of The Heart and the Chip performance lecture is also avail... more Selection of exhibition fliers. A DVD of The Heart and the Chip performance lecture is also available to view on site at Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Article published in Proceedings of International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2018): Insp... more Article published in Proceedings of International Conference on Live Interfaces (ICLI 2018): Inspiration, Performance, Emancipation available open access at http://www.liveinterfaces.org/2018/ICLI2018.pdf
... performances and exhibitions. The Robotic Ears described below are my first operational perfo... more ... performances and exhibitions. The Robotic Ears described below are my first operational perfor-mance machine to be powered by a microcontroller. Their program runs on a Microchip Pic 16F628, located in the control box of the ears. ...