After the Blast, starring Cristin Milioti, is a science fiction play whose eight characters include a robot. The premise is that the surface of the earth has been laid waste by a nuclear exchange, the consequences of which forced survivors to seek shelter underground. The male survivors devote themselves to fixing the environment while the…
This category maps how robots for last days are represented in different forms of art, and how art produces our imaginaries of robots and robotics.
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Ontologies of the Wayward Drone
On a clear evening in December, as the sun was setting over the Texas horizon, a Mexican drone entered U.S. airspace and crashed into a backyard in El Paso...
Unmanned
Unmanned is about the changing nature of masculinity in the face of automated technologies of war. It focuses on the unmanned aerial system, or drone, as a site of investigation. Rather than taking a conventional analytical approach, however, the work is performed live as "philosophical theater": a blend of performance art, political allegory, philosophical speculation,…
The Helpless Robot
The Helpless Robot (1987) is an artificial personality that responds to the behavior of humans by using its electronic voice, which speaks a total of 512 phrases. The speech that is delivered depends on its present and past experience of "emotions," ranging from boredom, frustration, arrogance, and overstimulation.
Telepresence after Death
This paper examines some of the increasingly sophisticated attempts by humans to evoke the presence of themselves or others after death and considers these efforts in the context of telepresence theory and research. Potential future research and ethical implications are also addressed.
Robots of Death
The Robots of Death is a classic Doctor Who story and a strong contender for anyone's Top Ten. Chris Boucher successfully draws on a number of different sources and combines this with his flair for characterization and incisive dialogue. The basic situation is typical of a detective story; a group of people are locked in…
Hartware MedienKunstVerein Dortmund – Ausstellung: Artifical Intelligence Digitale Demenz
As early as 1996, we regarded Deep Blue, the chess-playing computer devised by IBM that won against Garry Kasparov, as a turning point in history. Humankind lost against a machine and started to ask: “When will the computers take power?” As is always the case with technological evolution, we are both fascinated by and afraid…
Mission Eternity / Bridges / Sarcophagus
The MISSION ETERNITY SARCOPHAGUS is a mobile sepulcher for users who prefer to be buried at an indeterminate geographical location. The mobile cemetery tank is a 20 foot ISO standard cargo container (6m long, 2.4m wide, 2.6m high, 4 tons in weight) and can potentially travel planet earth until it falls apart. The system allows…
SRL – Survival Research Labs
Survival Research Laboratories was conceived of and founded by Mark Pauline in November 1978. Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged…
Domesticated Robots And The Art Of Being Human
With a new generation of technology comes a new generation of scientists, scholars, engineers and artists exploring the relationship between people and machines.
Robot & Frank
Robot & Frank is a 2012 American science fiction comedy-drama film directed by Jake Schreier and written by Christopher Ford. Set in the near future, it focuses on Frank Weld, an aging jewel thief played by Frank Langella, whose son buys him a domestic robot. Resistant at first, Frank warms up to the robot when…