Robots are necessarily transdisciplinaryTransdisciplinary things. Like everything that occupies that space in-between our taxonomies, or that third space, they can evoke strong feelings of curiosity or fear. The elements of variance and verisimilitude they can embody create a distance, another space, wherein curators can draw attention to the cultural aspects of robotics by researching and displaying the ‘stuff’ of robotics in cross-disciplinary contexts, such as exhibitions. This chapter will focus on the exhibitions of artist Mari Velonaki and Deborah Turnbull Tillman (in collaboration with fellow curators) whereby elements of robotics have come into proximity with exhibitions on art, design, computers and engineering. Their display in the context of collaborative making, audience engagement and notions of authenticity makes them social, and by extension, cultural.
On Display: Robots as Culture
Spr. Ser. Cult. Comp.
Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies ; Kapitel : 16 ; 257-274
2023-05-12
18 pages
Aufsatz/Kapitel (Buch)
Elektronische Ressource
Englisch