April 30th, 2009
Roboter - Performance - Fashion - Film
9 to 17 May 2009
Projects at the Edith Russ Site for Media Art
Exhibition: Part 1
Robots - Animated technology in art
9 - 17 May
Artist talks: Saturday, 9 May, 4 p.m.-7 p.m.
They move, they communicate and they react to us. There is no telling
what they will do. They seem to be alive. Under the auspices of the
I-Machine Festival, a horde of robotic beings, designed by various media
artists, will populate the Edith Russ Site for Media Art. While the
exhibition is showing, art robots and robotic installations, visitors
will learn how to make mini-robots themselves at workshops. The Festival
will open with a robotics art performance.
Artists: Frank Fietzek, Paul Granjon, KH Jeron, Ralf Schreiber
More info and the complete programm under www.edith-russ-haus.de.
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D-26121 Oldenburg
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January 13th, 2007
talk show is an installation and robot performance
TV talk shows as theatre of the absurd. The term absurd is derived from an essay by the French philosopher Albert Camus. In his ‘Myth of Sisyphus’, written in 1942, he first defined the human situation as basically meaningless and absurd.
3 custom build robot vehicles on a miniature stage will enact a tv talkshow. The vehicles are equiped with a tiny digital radio receiver. which enables them to receive texts in form of audio files broadcasted by an fm transmitter. The texts will be taken from online resources about talk shows and converted to audio files with a text2speech software.
Conversation example: I just don’t know if I can stick around, because I can’t look in her face every day and see that she’s not mine. There were a number of things that began to just not quite ring true & people making comments that she didn’t look like me, whereas my elder daughter did. But you would throw that away if this child’s not yours. Because I’m not going to deal with the pain again. Suspicions confirmed by science. “Why were you calling his cellphone?” “Just to hear his voice.”
In addition to attached digital radios, the vehicles will be equiped with tiny motors to make them move and radio transmitters to allow communication. Every vehicle is steered by a microcontroller. A host controller will distribute instructions for movements and audiofiles.
Tabloid television shows are a part of our pop culture that have been around for a long time. They are an integral part of our culture. It’s always made me curious to figure what the mentality of those individuals who agree to participate in these things is. What prompts them to reveal the ugliest details of their private lives in front of complete strangers? Continue Reading »
October 29th, 2006
TIOTITA reenacts TV shows as an absurd theatre with small robots as actors.
The installation “The improvement of television in the afternoon” poses the question how the re-telling of the stories, which are enacted in the fictional worlds of television, changes our perception of them. The installation attempts a critique of the idealized self-conception of talk shows in the afternoon TV program and in the larger frame analyses instance of the society of the spectacle.
The first part of TIOTITA deals with the genre of court TV, following parts will focus on talk shows.
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October 29th, 2006
dVdFan dekonstruiert das Fersehformat „Gerichtsshow“ durch Überaffirmation. Die gesprochenen Texte der einzelnen Protagonisten – Richter,Staatsanwalt, Verteidiger, Angeklagter und Zeugen – der Gerichtsshows wurden isoliert, transkribiert und im Computer erfasst. Die Stereotypen und Abnormitäten dieser Texte sind die Basis der Dialoge von Richter, Staatsanwalt, Verteidiger, Angeklagter und Zeuge. Eine Text2Speech-Software wandelt diese Dialoge in Sprachdateien und sendet sie an kleine, audiofähige Robotervehikel. Die Vehikel agieren als Schauspieler in einer Art Filmset, einem Diorama aus MDF im Maßstab 1 zu 20. Es besteht im Wesentlichen aus einem Fenster, Tischen, kleinen Büchern und Stiften für Richter, Staatsanwalt und Verteidiger.
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October 29th, 2006
Richter / Judge - Foto: T M Friedrich 2006
Installation - Foto: T M Friedrich 2006