A burglar setting up to take off with several used laptops and its “priceless,” personal contents was thwarted when the attempted crime was captured by an interactive art project’s component — a $50 motion activated camera. Ooh, robots are nifty. Read more »
These intricate neo-traditional works from Korean artist Kim Yong Soo are made of textured assemblages of microchips, clusters of semi-conductors, wads of metal wire and misc electronics junk. It’s all plastered up nice with acrylic cement to appear as delicate branches, serene cherry blossoms, cute robot birds and screaming androids tree mutants.
New York raked in $53 million dollars from cameras that catch drivers who run red lights. According to NBC New York, there are only 150 cameras across the five boroughs. The cameras were allowed to photograph law breaking motorists starting in 2007. Read more »
Four high school students spent their summer engineering internship at Cooper Union performing surgery on an “anesthetized” roach, wiring an electronic chip into its antenna and making it run around to Weezer. Read more »
These intricate vector drawings were made by a 3-axis CNC machine that follows a pre-programed tool path and mimics human hand pressure. Artists! Purchase a robot original here and hang it on your wall to remind yourself that robots can tirrrkk errrr JERRRBBSS!! See the collaborative project from MWM Graphics, aarn and Paper Fortress Filmson on subtly hypnotic video. Read more »
Remember that blobby ghost-baby robo-phone that mimics the caller’s facial gestures? Its latest, eeriest prototype Elfie has “human-like” rubbery skin, heats, cools and is portable - if you’re keen on carrying around a reverse voodoo doll cyborg. “The mobile phone may feel like the person you are talking to,” says researcher Takashi Minato. Oh boy! Get in my pocket.
Eric Joyner paints only what he likes, which happens to be robots and doughnuts. If you do too, proceed to the Corey Helford Gallery for his solo show. See the preview of the work below, now with more cupcakes! Read more »
From the maker of a terrifyingly realistic robot clone Geminoid HI-1 and robot girl Geminoid F, comes Telenoid R1 – an armless, legless white blob that transmits the human essence. Watch stumpy chat and writhe around in this video. Read more »
And the three most robot-replaceable artists are: Jackson Pollock, Damien Hirst and Yves Klein. Aside from artist robo-doppelgängers, Cai Guo-Qiang and Wu Yulu’s current exhibit at the Rockbund Art Museum in Shanghai features a creepy toddler robot for all your co-dependent, procreative needs. Read more »
Fellow patrons of varicolored robot love: Head to the cozy Williamsburg digs of Cinders Gallery tonight for the opening of R. Nicholas Kuszyk’s “Superconcious Futureritual.” Let your eyes frolic through robot chaos and ceremony, up radiant streams, by robot day jobs, in epic metal scuffles with tiny exploding heads and more oblong droid adventure. Feel free to pester Kuszyk into more mural making.
“Superconcious Futureritual,” R. Nicholas Kuszyk, Feb 12 – Mar 14, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn
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