Week 3 Art + Robots

While the people had to directly move in order to do something in the past, recently, the robots and A.I, which attract the attention of many people, give the people comfort by replacing what they need to do. The robots have not been developed to the ultimate goals of the scientists mentioned by Hod Lipson, such as Robots will continue to evolve like animals, learn something like children, grow, adapt, and self-repair. The robots eventually begin to have an influence on not only physical aspects of people but also the mental aspects such as art. For example, there is a robot named "NIghtwriter Nyx" that expresses art by sprinkling a special material that can be seen at night on the floor, which not only attracts people's interest in performing arts activities by expressing art but also shows the possibility of new art using the robots.

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While there is such a positive response, some people look at the negative aspects of robot development. A person named Benjamin said that the mechanical reproduction of art, or the mass production of art, can be the main reason for the elimination of originality and creativity from the work. On the other hands, my idea is different from what he thinks. Everyone wants to buy a piece of the work by an artist. However, there are a lot of people who cannot afford to spend their money on the work, since the work is more expensive than the IKEA or Ross paintings.

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Everything includes both good and bad side. Rodney Brooks said that as technology develops, the robot will eventually become a necessary part of our lives. Therefore, people should keep looking at the robot in a positive direction. For example, there are people who have created "electric-circus." using robots and art to make people laugh I hope to see a world where robots and art interact.

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source

1) http://www.electric-circus.eu/

2)http://www.gijsvanbon.nl/

3)https://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots#t-321681

4)https://www.ted.com/talks/hod_lipson_builds_self_aware_robots#t-339279

5)WALTER BENJAMIN "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" (1936)

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Figure 1- http://www.gijsvanbon.nl/

Figure 2- https://redmondmag.com/articles/2017/12/01/can-ai-protect-it.aspx

Figure 3- http://www.electric-circus.eu/