Art and Robotics: The Back Door
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- ISEA96: Seventh International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Art and Robotics: The Back Door
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This talk will focus on the strategies and artistic performances of Colin Piepgras, whose work deals with the interface between the individual and a fast forward, mall-mythology culture. Piepgras, who is employed by the Field Robotics Center of Carnegie Mellon University, attempts to reconcile high-tech employment with a low-tech artistic production. Through the manufacture and performance of mechanical exo-skeletons and insulating super-suits in quasi-public settings such as airports and train stations.