Simon Penny: Petit Mal

Title:

Petit Mal

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Simon Penny -
  • University of California at Irvine

Symposium:

• ISEA95: Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art

Venue(s):

• École Cherrier, Montreal, Canada

Artist Statement:

Petit Mal is a lightweight, autonomous mobile device which displays interactive emergent behavior in real space. It explores indoor public spaces and responds to people. Petit Mal is a piece of “reflexive technology” which seeks to offer a commentary on modern robotics. Changes in behavior are a product of an ongoing sense of its own ‘body’. A Petit Mal in neurological terminology is a short lapse of consciousness. The project was conceived in 1989 and built from 1993 to 1995.

Technical Information:

Petit Mal is a lightweight, autonomous mobile device which displays interactive emergent behavior in real space. It explores indoor public spaces and responds to people. Petit Mal is a piece of “reflexive technology” which seeks to offer a commentary on modern robotics.

Category:

• Electronic / Robotic Object