Robotic Art and Cultural Imagination

Abstract

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.

Contributors

Bojana Romic

Conference

Publication date: May 2018

Publication date (Print): May 2018

Pages: 1-10

Affiliations

[1 ] School of Arts and Communication

Nordenskiöldsgatan 1, 211 19 Malmö, Sweden

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVAC18.48

Copyright statement: © Romic. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA Copenhagen 2018, Denmark

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Conference name: Politics of the Machines - Art and After

Conference acronym: EVA Copenhagen

Conference number: 7

Conference location: Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark

Conference date: 15 - 17 May 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Digital arts and culture

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Product Information: 1477-9358BCS Learning & Development

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing