Coy-B, an art robot for exploring the ontology of artificial creatures

Paul Granjon

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_4

Coy-B, an art robot for exploring the ontology of artificial creatures

Paul Granjon^*

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Abstract

The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans and machines, a subject he explores with self-made machines. The paper describes the aims, method, and context of Coy-B, a robot designed for a performance art experiment in human-robot interaction loosely based on Joseph Beuys' I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) where the German artist shared a gallery space in New York for several days with a wild coyote. Coy-B will feature in a series of durational performances for an autonomous mobile robot and a human, where the robot will take the role occupied by the coyote in Beuys' piece. Diametrically opposed to the coyote who symbolised a natural instinctual dimension, the Coy-B robot is a representative of contemporary techno-scientific achievements, a fully artificial creature.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Revised Selected Papers
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	30-33
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Print)	9783662436448
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_4
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	14th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2013 - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: 28 Aug 2013 → 30 Aug 2013

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	8069 LNAI
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	14th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2013
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Oxford
Period	28/08/13 → 30/08/13

Keywords

Art
Autonomous
Beuys
Bio-inspired
Human-robot interaction
Johnston
Machinic life
Performance
Self-motivated

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Granjon, P. (2014). Coy-B, an art robot for exploring the ontology of artificial creatures. In Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 30-33). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8069 LNAI). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_4

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Granjon, P 2014, Coy-B, an art robot for exploring the ontology of artificial creatures. in Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 8069 LNAI, Springer Verlag, pp. 30-33, 14th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2013, Oxford, United Kingdom, 28/08/13. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_4

Coy-B, an art robot for exploring the ontology of artificial creatures. / Granjon, Paul.
Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Springer Verlag, 2014. p. 30-33 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 8069 LNAI).

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