FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative Robotics

The Creative Robotics issue wants to wrestle with the figure of the robot as a historically and culturally constructed sociomaterial assemblage and with how it enacts a number of political, social and aesthetic questions. Aligning itself with the emerging practice of Creative Robotics, the issue del...

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Main Author: Petra Gemeinboeck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Open Humanities Press 2016-12-01
Series:Fibreculture Journal
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Online Access:http://twentyeight.fibreculturejournal.org/
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description The Creative Robotics issue wants to wrestle with the figure of the robot as a historically and culturally constructed sociomaterial assemblage and with how it enacts a number of political, social and aesthetic questions. Aligning itself with the emerging practice of Creative Robotics, the issue deliberately positions itself at the uneasy nexus from which these assemblages emerge, while subscribing to a fundamentally experimental, embodied and performative approach. Creative Robotics is a transdisciplinary practice that builds on the history of robotic and cybernetic art to explore human–robot configurations from a critical, socio-cultural perspective. It brings together concepts and methods from experimental arts and engineering, performance and the social sciences, and it often materially experiments with what Lucy Suchman has succinctly described as ‘material-discursive practices through which boundaries and associated entities are made’ (2011: 121). Rather than being concerned with the constrained context of currently envisioned human-machine configurations, the issue aims to unhinge, open up and expand these visions by exploring ‘a more differentiated set of starting points for the robot’ (Castañeda and Suchman, 2014: 340).
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spelling doaj.art-44d6730edb6844d397faaf7d1950fa362022-12-22T00:45:18ZengOpen Humanities PressFibreculture Journal1449-14431449-14432016-12-01281710.15307/fcj.28.203.2017FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative RoboticsPetra Gemeinboeck0Creative Robotics Lab, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South WalesThe Creative Robotics issue wants to wrestle with the figure of the robot as a historically and culturally constructed sociomaterial assemblage and with how it enacts a number of political, social and aesthetic questions. Aligning itself with the emerging practice of Creative Robotics, the issue deliberately positions itself at the uneasy nexus from which these assemblages emerge, while subscribing to a fundamentally experimental, embodied and performative approach. Creative Robotics is a transdisciplinary practice that builds on the history of robotic and cybernetic art to explore human–robot configurations from a critical, socio-cultural perspective. It brings together concepts and methods from experimental arts and engineering, performance and the social sciences, and it often materially experiments with what Lucy Suchman has succinctly described as ‘material-discursive practices through which boundaries and associated entities are made’ (2011: 121). Rather than being concerned with the constrained context of currently envisioned human-machine configurations, the issue aims to unhinge, open up and expand these visions by exploring ‘a more differentiated set of starting points for the robot’ (Castañeda and Suchman, 2014: 340).http://twentyeight.fibreculturejournal.org/creative roboticsroboticsrobotics and artart and technologysocial roboticsrobots
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FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative Robotics
Fibreculture Journal
creative robotics
robotics
robotics and art
art and technology
social robotics
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title FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative Robotics
title_full FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative Robotics
title_fullStr FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative Robotics
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title_short FCJ-203 Introduction to Issue 28: Creative Robotics
title_sort fcj 203 introduction to issue 28 creative robotics
topic creative robotics
robotics
robotics and art
art and technology
social robotics
robots
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