Robots and art : exploring an unlikely symbiosis / Damith Herath, Christian Kroos, Sterlarc, editors.

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English
Published/​Created
  • Singapore : Springer, [2016]
  • ©2016
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xix, 456 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

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    The first compendium on robotic art of its kind, this book explores the integration of robots into human society and our attitudes, fears and hopes in a world shared with autonomous machines. It raises questions about the benefits, risks and ethics of the transformative changes to society that are the consequence of robots taking on new roles alongside humans. It takes the reader on a journey into the world of the strange, the beautiful, the uncanny and the daring – and into the minds and works of some of the world’s most prolific creators of robotic art. Offering an in-depth look at robotic art from the viewpoints of artists, engineers and scientists, it presents outstanding works of contemporary robotic art and brings together for the first time some of the most influential artists in this area in the last three decades. Starting from a historical review, this transdisciplinary work explores the nexus between robotic research and the arts and examines the diversity of robotic art, the encounter with robotic otherness, machine embodiment and human–robot interaction. Stories of difficulties, pitfalls and successes are recalled, characterising the multifaceted collaborations across the diverse disciplines required to create robotic art.
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    Includes bibliographical references.
    Contents
    • Engineering the arts
    • Damith Heath and Christian Kroos
    • The art in the machine / Christian Kroos
    • We have always been robots: the history of robots and art / Elizabeth Stephens and Tara Heffernan
    • Robotics and art, computationalism and embodiment / Simon Penny
    • Robotics: hephaestus does it again / Jean-Paul Laumond
    • Embracing interdependencies: machines, humans and non-humans / Amy M. Youngs
    • Trans=species interfaces: a manifesto for symbiogenisis / Ken Rinaldo
    • Cultivating the uncanny: the telegarden and other oddities / Elizabeth Jochum and Ken Goldberg
    • The potential of otherness in robotic art / Eleanor Sandry
    • Being one, being many / Christian Kroos and Damith Herath
    • Way of the jitterbug / Norman T. White
    • Still and useless: the ultimate automaton / Nicolas Reeves and David St-Onge
    • Machines that make art / Leonel Moura
    • The multiple bodies of a machine performer / Louis-Philippe Demers
    • Bio-engineered brains and robotic bodies: from embodiment to self-portraiture / Guy Ben-Ary and Gemma Ben-Ary
    • Android robots as in-between beings / Kohei Ogawa and Hiroshi Ishiguro
    • Into the soft machine / Chico MacMurtrie
    • I want to believe - empathy and catharsis in robotic art / Bill Vorn
    • Designing robots creatively / Mari Velonaki and David Rye
    • Robot partner - are friends electric? / Stefan Doepner and Urska Jurman
    • Encounters, anecdotes and insights - prosthetics, robotics and art / Stelarc.
    ISBN
    • 9789811003196 ((hbk))
    • 981100319X ((hbk))
    OCLC
    930257945
    International Article Number
    • 9789811003196
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