Time and location:
-18 th of may 2004 at 10 AM, dept of Medialogy / Ålborg university, København.
-18th of may 2004 at 2 PM, Københavns University
Cafeen bygning 21 - Karen Blixens vej 1 - 2300 København S . (See picture here)
-19 th of may at 1 pm, Medialogi / Ålborg universitet, Niels Bohrs Vej 8
DK-6700 Esbjerg.
Title: Multiple Otonlogies Disorder of Machines.
Abstract:
Machines are a mythical construction which is not solely a complex tool (apparatus)
but also a social apparatus. It is not only constituted of material parts but also
of immaterial elements, of a mentality and and belief into a goal or an effect --
Lewis Mummford.
Machines are doubles to human. Machines are slave workers to our menial
tasks. Machines are seen as virtuosos. sleepless and emotionless. Stuck between the
real and the artificial, the flesh and the metal, the sign and the signified, the
robots suffer from Multiple Ontologies Disorder, a high-level manifestation of
human-robot schizophrenia.
Is human anthropocentricity at the centre of this disorder?.
Are referencses of man to the machines merely a variant of self-elevation ?
Since the principal of artificial reproduction favors the human (animal) body and the human (animal) existence as construct, can self-contained, self-driven mechnical spaces where visitors are solely intruders can turn into a
space/ experience for humans ?
Discussions and presentation of robotic / mechanic / systemic
reactive(interactive) spaces, installations and performances. Themes include
robot misery, perversion of the perception, the interactive lure, theme parks for
adults.
We will show a serie of art works on the machine condition where robots act as an
intermediate dialogue of our own human condition.
See also: www.hfg-karlsruhe.de/~ldemers/
and: solaris.hfg-karlsruhe.de/hfg/inhalt/de/Lehrende/1932