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 languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTowards Autonomous Robotic Systems - 14th Annual Conference, TAROS 2013, Revised Selected Papers
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages30-33
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9783662436448
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2014
Event14th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2013 - Oxford, United Kingdom
Duration: 28 Aug 201330 Aug 2013

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume8069 LNAI
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference14th Annual Conference on Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, TAROS 2013
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityOxford
Period28/08/1330/08/13

Keywords

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

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