Abstract
Since the early 90s, we have been creating interactive installation and performance projects using robotics, audiovisuals, and processes inspired by Artificial Life. The goal of these projects is to induce empathy from the viewers towards characters that are nothing else than simple articulated metal structures. Our objective is to conceive and realize large-scale robotic environments that aim to question, reformulate and subvert the notions of behavior, projection and empathy that generally characterize interactions between humans and machines.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
Kac E (1997) Foundation and development of robotic art. Art J 56(3):60–67
Eco U (1991) The limits of interpretation. Indiana U Press, Bloomington
Hugo V (1862) Les Misérables. A Lacroix, Verboeckhoven & Cie, Paris
Ismert L (1998) La Cour des Miracles. Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Kafka F (1925) Der process. Verlag die Schmiede, Berlin
Max (or MaxMSP) is a graphic object-oriented programming environment dedicated to multimedia control. http://www.cycling74.com/products/max. Accessed 3 Aug 2014
Adamatzky A (ed) (2010) Game of life cellular automata. Springer, New York
ManyEars is a sound localization software developed by IntRoLab at University of Sherbrooke. It implements real-time microphone array processing to perform sound source localization, tracking and separation. It was designed for mobile robot audition in dynamic environments
The DSM (2013) (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is now in its 5th edition
Alighieri D (circa 1308–1321) Divina Commedia. English edition: Alighieri D (2013) The divine comedy. Arcturus Publishing Limited, London
Turbeville T, Brandel J (1998) Tiger balm gardens: a Chinese Billionaire’s fantasy environments. Aw Boon Haw Foundation, Hong Kong
MacMurtrie C (2014) http://www.amorphicrobotworks.org/works/early/. Accessed 3 Aug 2014
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Concordia University (Montréal, Canada) for its support; the Canada Council for the Arts; the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec; the Fonds de Recherche du Québec Société et Culture (FRQSC); Martin Peach, who has been a dedicated technician for many years; as well as the numerous graduate and undergraduate students who have been working as research assistants on many of these projects.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2016 Springer Science+Business Media Singapore
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Vorn, B. (2016). I Want to Believe—Empathy and Catharsis in Robotic Art. In: Herath, D., Kroos, C., Stelarc (eds) Robots and Art. Cognitive Science and Technology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_18
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9_18
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-0319-6
Online ISBN: 978-981-10-0321-9
eBook Packages: EngineeringEngineering (R0)