In Praise of Imperfection: Prototypes
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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- Signs of Life: Human-Robot Intersubjectivities
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- In Praise of Imperfection: Prototypes
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Panel: Signs of Life: Human-Robot Intersubjectivities
Approximation, failure, fragmentation, gaps, dys-functioning, whether they are wished for or not, are very human conditions as well as part of the knowledge process. We will discuss how the resulting behaviours in some robotic entities reveal emotion as a shared construction. Notions such as “perfect machine”, “autonomy” and “performativity” will be considered through a series of works by artists. These robotic works would often be better qualified as “prototypes”, which is by definition a single production, with a potentiality of, let us say, a “positive dys-functioning”.