ART 80F - MODULE 1 WEEK 1 LECTURE CONTENT

 

INTRO TO INVISIBLE ARCHITECTURES IN DIGITAL MEDIA

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Ken Goldberg’s Robot in the Garden

Key Ideas + Questions

  • Defining Moment for Internet?

  • Which projects + questions are still relevant today?

Artists have always been concerned with how representations provide us with knowledge…But as we have noted, representations can misrepresent. If Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds was the defining moment for radio, what will be the defining moment for the internet? How will artistic strategies be shaped by telerobotics and what is its potential as an artistic medium?

As the public gains access to telerobotic instruments previously restricted to scientists, questions of mediation, knowledge, and trust take on a new significance for everyday life.