Published by La Cité des Sciences et de l’industrie & Art Book Magazine
release date april 15th 2014
printed and digital versions
French and English
ROBOTIC ART A MONUMENTAL EXHIBITION
is an 1,600 square meters exhibition designed and produced by the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie (Paris), in collaboration with Epidemic, from April 8th 2014 to January 4th 2015
When artists use robotics it is not so much to design robots as to transform the natural world. Giving pride of place to impressive and sometimes monumental works of art, like the twenty installations and performances featured in this catalogue, they strive to dissolve the boundaries between art and science.
Take Chico MacMurtrie / ARW’s Totemobile, which looks like a well-known make of car but is actually a sculpture concealing fifty interdependent machines that unfolds to form an 18-meter-high organic totem made of metal and inflatable components. Or consider the work of Dutch artist Theo Jansen, like Animaris Adulari, Animaris Umerus and Animaris Ordis, three of his autonomous giant beach creatures that resemble mammoth skeletons and are impelled by wind. According to their creator, “the walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.”
Besides the course of the exhibition, the catalog includes a panorama on the mechanical and humanoids creatures, unpublished in English, “Artist and robot: A brief history of a relationship” by Gottfried Hattinger, former artistic director of the Ars electronica festival at the Brucknerhaus in Linz (Austria).
• 11 artists et collectives
Jean Michel Bruyère / LFKs, Shun Ito, Theo Jansen, Lu Yang, Chico MacMurtrie / ARW, Maywa Denki, Till Nowak, Christian Partos, Robotlab, Shiro Takatani, Troika
• 60 illustrations
• 3 thorough texts
• 10 full notices
• French and English
TWO VERSIONS AVAILABLE
PRINTED VERSION
April 8th, 2014
at the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie
and on line
