FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots
The social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for the elderly share a fundamental anthropocentric bias: they are designed to be benign, to facilitate a transaction that aims to be both useful to and simple for the human. At a time when intelligent ma...
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| description | The social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for the elderly share a fundamental anthropocentric bias: they are designed to be benign, to facilitate a transaction that aims to be both useful to and simple for the human. At a time when intelligent machines are becoming a tangible prospect, such a bias does not leave much room for exploring and understanding the ongoing changes affecting the relation between humans and our technological environment. Can art robots – robots invented by artists – offer a non-benign-by-default perspective that opens the field for a machine to express its machinic potential beyond the limits imposed by an anthropocentric and market-driven approach? The paper addresses these questions by considering and contextualising early cybernetic machines, current developments in social robotics, and art robots by the author and other artists. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e486028252a74af48623ec0c9489a6112022-12-21T23:55:12ZengOpen Humanities PressFibreculture Journal1449-14431449-14432016-12-0128748910.15307/fcj.28.208.2017FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art RobotsPaul Granjon0Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan UniversityThe social robot's current and anticipated roles as butler, teacher, receptionist or carer for the elderly share a fundamental anthropocentric bias: they are designed to be benign, to facilitate a transaction that aims to be both useful to and simple for the human. At a time when intelligent machines are becoming a tangible prospect, such a bias does not leave much room for exploring and understanding the ongoing changes affecting the relation between humans and our technological environment. Can art robots – robots invented by artists – offer a non-benign-by-default perspective that opens the field for a machine to express its machinic potential beyond the limits imposed by an anthropocentric and market-driven approach? The paper addresses these questions by considering and contextualising early cybernetic machines, current developments in social robotics, and art robots by the author and other artists.http://twentyeight.fibreculturejournal.org/2017/01/23/fcj-208-this-machine-could-bite-on-the-role-of-non-benign-art-robots/roboticscreative roboticssocial roboticscyberneticsart and roboticsart and technology |
| spellingShingle | Paul Granjon FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots Fibreculture Journal robotics creative robotics social robotics cybernetics art and robotics art and technology |
| title | FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots |
| title_full | FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots |
| title_fullStr | FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots |
| title_full_unstemmed | FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots |
| title_short | FCJ-208 This Machine Could Bite: On the Role of Non-Benign Art Robots |
| title_sort | fcj 208 this machine could bite on the role of non benign art robots |
| topic | robotics creative robotics social robotics cybernetics art and robotics art and technology |
| url | http://twentyeight.fibreculturejournal.org/2017/01/23/fcj-208-this-machine-could-bite-on-the-role-of-non-benign-art-robots/ |
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