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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818421603321

Autore

Passath Niki <1977->

Titolo

Niki Passath : thinking like a machine : an artists journey into robotics / / contributions from Gerald Bast [and nine others] ; translation from German into English, Christopher Barber, Sophie Frühling

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Germany : , : Boston, Massachusetts : , : De Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-11-054379-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Edition Angewandte : book series of the University of Applied Arts Vienna

Disciplina

700.411

Soggetti

Robots in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Conversation Bast-Reder- Weibel-Passath -- 1. Kurt -- 2. Volker -- 3. Something For The Pain -- 4. Zoe -- 5. Chimera -- 6. Painting Traces -- 7. Thinking Like A Machine -- 8. The Artist As A Machine -- Authors -- Colophon

Sommario/riassunto

In many modes of behavior, people act more and more like machines. In the context of work, people have become a human resource that can be replaced at any time. An existence without purpose cannot be imagined just as a machine without function is absurd. Do humans already think like machines? Do they have a "master-slave" relationship with them? Are humans no longer any more than an organic prosthetic fitted to an inorganic body? With his created robotic beings, Niki Passath breaks with this seemingly rational technological system. By eliminating the predominant rationality of the machine, he gives it a new meaning. This book is the first monograph on the artist's oeuvre. Internationally renowned experts shed light on the many facets of his work.