automation
Automation describes a wide range of technologies that reduce human intervention in processes, mainly by predetermining decision criteria, subprocess relationships, and related actions, as well as embodying those predeterminations in machines – Wikipedia.
Chair 2 – Merging the mundane with the uncanny
Developed during a residency at New Lab (Detroit), Chair 2 explores the mundane with the uncanny, where an ordinary chair "comes alive" through motion.
Creative Tech New York 2025 – October 15
On October 15, creative technologists, innovators, and creative professionals will convene in New York to connect with likeminded professionals, all with the shared goal of understanding the future of creative technology.
Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe
So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes our thought, then pronounces us dead.
With Love From AI – Kindness and joy with automation
With Love From AI explores technology and human connection through the medium of postcards. Using a custom-built photo frame, the device captures candid moments in various locations and transforms them into a heartfelt postcard message with Google...
Otto – Robotic choreographies
Created by the team of engineers, designers, coders, researchers and storytellers at Gentle Systems, Otto is comprised of two choreographed KUKA Agilus KR6 robots, and a series of tools the team built to allow them to explore surface tensions of ...
Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotio...
Brain Processing Unit – Artificial brain tissue APIs
Brain Processing Unit explores the adaptation of artificial brain tissues alongside custom electronics to stimulate, analyze data, and develop the necessary APIs, networks, and other interface technologies required for these operations.
The Red Line – Threshold of tolerance/action
The Red Line is a physical device that examines how we adapt to escalating crises, revealing our tendency to shift the threshold of what we consider acceptable over time. It is inspired by the concept of a "red line" — a figurative boundary that, ...
I/Another – Bodily presence in human-machine communication
Created by Animaspace, I/Another explores the potential of kinaesthetic collaboration between humans and robots. The installation invites participants to engage in non-verbal, spatial dialogues with a robotic sculpture named Another, prioritizing ...
Goal Seeking – Senseless entities or an intelligent collective
Goal Seeking consists of small robots with a vibration motor that are only powered through a solar panel and an external artificial light source. In a space to their own, the small, simple robots move around. Their energy cycle is wasteful, the sp...
G80 – (un)Equitable variables
G80 is an interactive installation which proposes a contemporary interpretation of Buckminster Fuller's "World Game". Visitors interact with a matrix of sliders, each corresponding to a variable of one of 80 human conditions selected by the artist...
LOOM – A weaving frame of ONs and OFFs
LOOM is an expansive light and sound installation comprised of phosphorescent threads that orchestrate a score of light, sound and darkness. A sequence of ONs and OFFs are spun into a network of data, with each luminous point defining the location...
Round About Four Dimensions – Exploring the Unknown
Created by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, Round About Four Dimensions sculpture represents a “hypercube”, “four-cube” or “tesseract”, often cited in mathematical and physical theories to illustrate concepts beyond three spatial dimensions.
Repeater – A feedback loop between a pen plotter and a pen digitizer
Repeater is a custom software that creates a feedback loop between a pen plotter and a pen digitizer. The process starts with the pen plotter tracing the description text. At the same time the software records and draws the text on the screen as c...
MPLUSPLUS “Embodiment++” – CCBT
Expanding the Body through Technology: Questioning the Future of Human Physicality in the Real and Virtual World. The exhibition showcases MPLUSPLUS’s latest endeavour: a performance featuring robots that go beyond the human.
Persistence of Vision – Subverting civil infrastructure
Persistence of Vision is a public installation that adapts recognisable civil infrastructure into an interactive experience. The project is a reaction to our current state of surveillance, be it self initiated or passive, by revealing an often ove...
Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech – Brian Merchant
Today, technology imperils millions of jobs, robots are crowding factory floors, and artificial intelligence will soon pervade every aspect of our economy. How will this change the way we live? And what can we do about it? The answers lie in Blood...
Kazokutchi – New social formats
Families of digital artificial lives that inhabit (micro-robotic) houses and reproduce on the blockchain.
RE:PLACES – Liebl and Schmid-Pfähler
RE:PLACES is a complex 1.70-meter-high robotic apparatus that excretes the plastic objects and then deposits them around the exhibition space like three-dimensional brushstrokes.
Sisyphus – Construction, Deconstruction, Power and Resistance
Created by Kachi Chan, 'Sisyphus' is an installation featuring two robots engaged in endless cyclic interaction. Smaller robots build brick arches, whilst a giant robot pushes them down – propelling a narrative of construction and deconstruction.
Returning the Gaze – Perpetual (male)surveillance
Created by Behnaz Farahi, ‘Returning the Gaze’ explores the complicity of the fashion industry with female objectification and sexual harassment. Comprised of a female model wearing a spacesuit-like outfit and accompanied by four robotic arms, the...
Another Moon – Kimchi and Chips
Created by Kimchi and Chips, 'Another Moon' is a large-scale outdoor apparition that creates a technically sublime second moon in the sky. 40 towers collect the sun's energy during the day and project that light back into the sky at night, creatin...
Amelia and the Machine – Choreography with autonomous moving systems
First in a series of investigations of creative human-robot teams led by Dr. Kate Sicchio (choreography) and Dr. Patrick Martin (robotics). It explores gestures of the robot arm as a starting point for a duet. Interacting through mimicry, timings ...
Altar-3000 – An AI prophet in the age of digestible truths
Altar-3000' is a project and a device that explores the notion of an AI prophet, a automated totem of customised belief. The home altar connects to the internet to retrieve latest betting headlines from PredictIt, humanity’s financial positions on...
Fantastic Smartphones – ECAL MID
Fantastic Smartphones, alternative accessories, interactive installations and machine performances highlight the excesses relating to our use of these devices. By imagining innovative ways of interacting with our smartphones or by delegating our r...
Cryptid – Animatronic light sculpture by Michael Candy
Created by Michael Candy, 'Cryptid' is an animatronic light sculpture that uses 18 linear actuators and open source Phoenix hexapod code to walk through a space. As human and robotic, natural and synthetic are increasingly amalgamated, the project...
Remote Materialities – Future scenographies of our coexistence with robotic devices
Created by the students at the Zurich University of the Arts, 'Remote Materialities' module and to be presented at the upcoming Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, 'Remote Materialities' explores the future scenographies of our coexistence with robo...