Robot Poetics: Toward a materially sensitive drawing robot

This paper opens a discussion on robot poetics: an alternative perspective on the design of robotic technology. By considering robots as metaphorical constructs they may provide new knowledge on humanity. This position is explored relative to the on-going development of a drawing robot, which will behave sensitively to material aspects – both its own physical embodiment and worldly situation – to exhibit a visual art expression intrinsic to the robot.

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O’Dowd Paul

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Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 104-112

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[0001]Independent Artist/Researcher

Bristol, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.19

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] ACM SIGGRAPH 2014 ACM SIGGRAPH awards – Harold Cohen, distinguished artist award for lifetime achievement. YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Xbt8lzWxIQ (retrieved 26 March 2018

[2] A. AvanessianA. Töpfer 2014 Speculative Drawing Sternberg Press

[3] J. Berger 2005 Berger On Drawing Occasional Press

[4] D. BerioS. CalinonF. Leymarie 2016 Learning dynamic graffiti strokes with a compliant robot In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) IEEE/RSJ

[5] R. Brooks 2003 Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us Vintage Books

[6] E. BurneleitF. HemmertR. Wettach 2009 Living interfaces: The impatient toaster In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction (TEI'09) 21 22

[7] C. Cazeaux 2015 Insights from the metaphorical dimension of making Lo Sguardo – rivista di filosofia 17 1: 373 391

[8] J. Culler 2011 Literary Theory, A Short Introduction OUP Oxford

[9] A. EffenbergG. SchmitzF. BaumannB. RosenhahnD. Kroeger 2015 Soundscript – supporting the acquisition of character writing by multisensory integration The Open Psychology Journal 8: 230 237

[10] M. FarokhiM. Hashemi 2011 The analysis of children's drawings: Social, emotional, physical, and psychological aspects Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences 30: 2219 2224

[11] D. FreedbergV. Gallese 2007 Motion, Emotion and Empathy in Esthetic Experience TRENDS in Cognitive Science 11 5: 197 203

[12] J. Gandy 2018 Artist webpage http://www.jamesnolangandy.com (retrieved 26 March 2018

[13] M. Heath and Aristotle 1996 Poetics Penguin Books

[14] A. Hertzmann 2003 A survey of stroke-based rendering IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications 23: 70 81

[15] A. Hoff 2018 Inconvergent, Artist webpage http://inconvergent.net/ (retrieved 26 March 2018

[16] J. Hollerbach 1980 An Oscillation theory of handwriting Biological Cybernetics 39 2: 139 156

[17] P. Hultén 1968 The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age The Museum of Modern Art

[18] F. Jenod 2018 Artist webpage http://www.francoisjunod.com (retrieved 26 March 2018

[19] W. JuL. Takayama 2009 Approachability: How people interpret automatic door movement as gesture International Journal of Design 3 2: 1 10

[20] H. KnightR. Simmons 2014 Expressive Motion with X, Y and Theta: Laban Effort Features for Mobile Robots In The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication 267 273

[21] B. Laposky 1970 Oscillons (electronic abstractions) J. Reichardt (ed.) Cybernetic Serendipity: The Computer and the Arts Studio International

[22] T. LindemeierJ. MetznerL. PollakO. Deussen 2015 Hardware-Based Non-Photorealistic Rendering Using a Painting Robot Computer Graphics Forum 34 2: 311 323

[23] M. LongstaffR. Heath 2006 Spiral drawing performance as an indicator of fine motor function in people with multiple sclerosis Human Movement Science 25 4: 474 491

[24] G. MohammadiA. Vinciarelli 2011 Towards a Technology of nonverbal behaviour In Affective Computing and Interaction: Psychological, Cognitive and Neuroscientific Perspectives 133 156

[25] L. MouraH. G. Pereira 2014 A new kind of art based on autonomous collective robotics

[26] Footprint: Dynamics of Data-Driven Design 15 1: 25 32

[27] National Gallery of Australia 2018 International sculpture and painting: Jean tinguely http://nga.gov.au/International/Catalogue/Detail.cfm?IRN=60874 (retrieved 26 March 2018

[28] P. O'Dowd 2018 Artist webpage http://www.paulodowd.com (retrieved 26 March 2018

[29] P. O'DowdS. HoskinsA. GeisowP. Walters 2015 Modulated extrusion for textured 3D printing NIP & Digital Fabrication Conference, 2015 1: 173 178

[30] R. Plamondon 1993 Looking at handwriting generation from a velocity control perspective Acta Psychologica 82 1–3: 89 101

[31] M. SalemF. EysselK. RohlfingS. KoppF. Joublin 2013 To Err is Human(-like): Effects of Robot Gesture on Perceived Anthropomorphism and Likability International Journal of Social Robotics 5: 313 323

[32] S. SchafferP. Sen and Stacey, N 2017 Mechanical marvels: Clockwork dreams. BBC Four. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0229pbp (retrieved 26 March 2018

[33] R. SayeedT. Howard 2006 State of the art non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) techniques Theory and Practice of Computer Graphics 2006 – Eurographics UK 1 10

[34] J. Tait 2018 Taitographs: Artist webpage http://www.taitographs.co.uk (retrieved 26 March 2018

[35] TateJ Tinguely 2018 Catalogue Entry – Jean Tinguely http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/tinguely-metamechanical-sculpture-with-tripod-t03823 (retrieved 26 March 2018

[36] A. ThomassenH. Teulings 1985 Time, Size and Shape in Handwriting: Exploring Spatiotemporal Relationships at Different Levels Time, Mind and Behaviour Springer Berlin Heidelberg

[37] E. ThoretM. AramakiL. BringouxS. YstadR. Kronland-Martinet 2016 Seeing circles and drawing ellipses: When sound biases reproduction of visual motion PLoS ONE 11 4: 1 12

[38] P. TressetO. Deussen 2014 Artistically skilled embodied agents In Proceedings of AISB2014

[39] R. Verostko 2018 The Algorists http://www.verostko.com/algorist.html (retrieved 26 March 2018

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