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Week 3: Robotics

Rinaldo, Ken. "Continuous War Train" Ken Rinaldo.com 2018. Sourced from:                                                                 http://www.kenrinaldo.com/portfolio/continuous-war-train/
    Technology has without a doubt become the majority of functionality in our lifetime today. The computer I am typing on has Artificial Intelligence linked inside of the software that allows me to use a fingerprint to open it without a password. The first person behind the actual idea of robotics was Henry Ford however you must relate back to the time of the printing press and industrialization. AS Walter Benjamin describes, the reproduction of art and the art of film have lacking materials that in essence define art (Benjamin 1). This can be related to movies and images that are pieces of art but not in real time. Much like Ken Rinaldo’s video (on the left) of a continuous war train, this art is much of a simulation generated by technology when he designed robots in the simulation to represent an actual video (Rinaldo 1).
    One particular example that has to deal with robotics and art is the exoskeleton created by Freerk Wieringa. This piece of art is specifically a humanoid made of robotics. Douglas Davis much like Benjamin argues that technology ruins the purity of art and that it does not store original work because art is defined how the viewer sees the art (Davis 1).
    If robotics are made technical but have a mind of their own, they could then be considered original art because they are then the creators rather than the humans who designed the mechanics. As Hod Lipson describes in his Ted Talk that robotics are self aware as they can figure out how to walk by figuring out how they look and receive images can be related to Davis and Benjamin's piece by being original. Although the robot is built upon man made parts, its ability to walk on its own is original artwork by the robot. One particular article against AI described AI as a joke and the only actual evidence of smart robots to be created by online artists, not scientists (Davidson 3).
    One example of a robotics artist is Gijs Van Bon who creates autonomous technical art but they do not move and act as their own because they do not have AI in them. If someone were to reproduce his art then it would and can be seen as a copy, like Davids and Benjamin argue.



References

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" 1936. 

Bon, Van Gijs. "Drop of Light" 2001 Sourced from: http://www.gijsvanbon.nl/

Davidson, Keay. "Robots Promises Unfulfilled" Science 2001. Sourced                                                                         from: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/SCIENCE-Robotic-Promises-as-Yet-Unfulfilled-2904698.php


Douglas Davis, "The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction" 1991. New York Digital Salon

Rinaldo, Ken. "Continuous War Train" Ken Rinaldo.com 2018. Sourced from:                                                                 http://www.kenrinaldo.com/portfolio/continuous-war-train/


Comments

  1. hanna_wittmack_desma9April 17, 2022 at 9:05 AM

    Hey Big Blog Guy,

    I thought you made a very interesting point when pointing out the connection of robots to art, and how robots can both play a role or originality as well as mass reproduction. You used examples that proved robotics have this multi situational role when it comes to the art world. Either used for reproduction or its own creation, in the world we live in today technology is bound to influence how we do things.

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