eavesdripping + robotarium

two new technologies that are heavy on sexuality. you'll be seeing more of this sort of stuff as i continue to collect material for our workshop proposal...

eavesdripping which uses water as a physical display:

Because the way of displaying is physically so present, it would be best to initially use it to visualize something and make it sensually experienceable which is equally present, but not perceptible. The metaphor of the installation would be to wash something from the air and make it visible on the ground in front of you.

robotarium:

Paul Granjon's Robotarium is a sort of robot zoo inhabited by three automatons. The two big robots are "sexed" aluminium carapaces constructed around industrialised white nylon genitals. The only purpose of the male and female robots is to mate with the other.

Then there's a small and solitary creature that lives in the Robotarium. The Smartbotis a simple and not-so-smart robot that lives on a table fitted with a low border. It moves in a straight line until it hits the border. Then it blinks and says either "Shit" or "Merde" or "Fuck" before resuming its hopeless exploration. After a few minutes it stops and cries luminous tears. Crying done it shuts its eyes, goes to sleep for a while, and starts all over again.

[thanks we make money not art + we make money not art]