Plastic Girls, a short film about greeting mannequins in South Korea - Nils Clauss
Erica: Man Made - The Guardian
“Erica is 23. She has a beautiful, neutral face and speaks in synthesised voice. She has 20 degrees of freedom but can’t move her hands yet. Hiroshi Ishiguro is her father and the bad boy of Japanese robotics. Together they will redefine what it means to be human and reveal that the future is closer than we might think.”
Director/Editor: Ilinca Calugareanu
Producer: Mara Adina
Executive producers for the Guardian: Charlie Phillips and Laurence Topham
The Blind Robot - Louis-Philippe Demers
Presented by Laboratoria Art&Science in the non-profit program of the International Contemporary Art Fair COSMOSCOW 2016
‘BLIND ROBOT is comprised of a robotic manipulator. Visitors are invited to sit in front of the machine and engage in a nonverbal dialogue with it. The robot delicately explores the body and the face of the visitor in a manner reminiscent of that of a blind person. The act of touching creates an emotionally charged connection between the human and the robot.’
Video made by U-Studio, 2016
‘mary’ - Trusst
Trusst partnered with Kinova Robotics to simulate forms of behaviour between human and robot. At the intersection of beauty and uncanny valley exists Mary.
‘Cycle’ by Raquel Sancinetti
A man and a woman surrounded by the overwhelming noise of electronics and consumerism. A portrait of loneliness in modern times.
Server Demirtaş ‘Boxer’ - Kinetica Museum