May 2018
Politics of the Machines - Art and After (EVA Copenhagen)
Digital arts and culture
15 - 17 May 2018
In this article, I aim to accentuate the importance of the cultural imagination about robots, observing it ‘as a mixed register of fantasy and an actual practice’ (Kakoudaki 2007, 165). I emphasise the field of robotic art, which, I argue, is in a fluid state of exchange with other areas of robotic research, equally benefiting from the larger context of the cultural imagination about robots.
Furthermore, I discuss artworks that offer a valuable commentary on robots even though they are not defined as robotic art in a narrow sense (Penny 2013), given that they feature only the representation of robots or robot-like characters. Nevertheless, these artworks contribute to the circulation of symbolic registers that revolve around the multifaceted figure of a robot.
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