BotShots: January 2011

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Featuring the 'Best-in-Show' of the Robot Art world in any media, we keep the editorializing to a minimum and strive to let the work speak for itself. Our statement on quality was made by it's inclusion in our collection.

Each image is linked to a larger version for more detailed examination and a link to the website of each artist featured is also provided.

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Well it's that time of year again and a whole year since I've last updated botShots. I am very sorry for this lapse and resolve to pick up right where i left off and not let another year go by without adding to this growing repository of fantastic robot related art. I have a backlog of content to add and new work is always being created that needs to be seen.

With that said I hope you will forgive my 'extended vacation' and continue to explore the fantastic world of robot art with us in the future. Watch this space. I'm back and with resolve. I hope your holidays and New Years were excellent and I look forward to resuming botShots with a new found motivation and rekindled enthusiasm.

2011... The Year of the Bot?

RecTech

RecTech: A term I coined to describe - The fusion (or use) of Recycled or Reclaimed material(s) with Technology or into Technologically inspired, aesthetically pleasing, pieces/objects (functional or not), usually for the purposes of Art. (whew)

It is, in fact, a moral imperative, an aesthetic and a philosophy.

Can we justify the creation of 'new' art whilst we continue to over-consume, and therefor produce 'waste', beyond our capacity to reasonably and safely contain it?

Should we be sending tons of our 'instantly-obsolete' techno-gadets and aged computers to fashion third-world mountains of hazardous waste?

Is everything we throw away - garbage?

Is it all no longer useful?

Is it without potential to become, at least, aesthetically pleasing?

Clearly (and luckily) vision, creativity, talent and passion, say differently. It may just be what saves us.

Wiki-Definitions

Android: a robot designed to look and act human.^[1] The word derives from ανδρός, the genitive of the Greek ανήρ anēr, meaning "man", and the suffix -eides, used to mean "of the species; alike" (from eidos, "species"). Though the word derives from a gender-specific root, its usage in English is usually gender neutral; the female counterpart, gynoid, is generally used only when the female gender is a distinguishing trait of the robot. The term was first mentioned by St. Albertus Magnus in 1270^[2] and was popularized by the French writer Villiers in his 1886 novel L'Ève future, although the term "android" appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature humanlike toy automations.^[3]

Cyborg: a cybernetic organism (i.e., an organism that has both artificial and natural systems). The term was coined in 1960 when Manfred Clynes and Nathan Kline used it in an article about the advantages of self-regulating human-machine systems in outer space.^[1] D. S. Halacy's Cyborg: Evolution of the Superman in 1965 featured an introduction by Manfred Clynes, who wrote of a "new frontier" that was "not merely space, but more profoundly the relationship between 'inner space' to 'outer space' -a bridge...between mind and matter."^[2] The cyborg is often seen today merely as an organism that has enhanced abilities due to technology,^[3] but this perhaps oversimplifies the category of feedback.

Steampunk: is a subgenre of fantasy and speculative fiction that came into prominence in the 1980s and early 1990s. The term denotes works set in an era or world where steam power is still widely used—usually the 19th century, and often set in Victorian era England—but with prominent elements of either science fiction or fantasy, such as fictional technological inventions like those found in the works of H. G. Wells and Jules Verne, or real technological developments like the computer occurring at an earlier date. Other examples of steampunk contain alternate history-style presentations of "the path not taken" of such technology as dirigibles or analog computers; these frequently are presented in an idealized light, or a presumption of functionality.

Cyberpunk: is a science fiction genre noted for its focus on "high tech and low life".^[1] The name is derived from cybernetics and punk and was originally coined by Bruce Bethke as the title of his short story "Cyberpunk," published in 1983,^[2] It features advanced science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the social order.

RetroFuture: Retro-futurism, retrofuturism, retro-future or retrofuture, terms combining "retro" and "futurism" or "future", can refer to two distinct concepts: A style of design or art or a sociopolitical ideology.

Retrofuturistic design is a return to, and an enthusiasm for, the depictions of the future produced in the past (most often the 1920s through 1960s), both in science fiction and in nonfiction futurism of the time, which often seem dated by modern standards.^[1] The ideology combines retrograde sociopolitical views with techno-utopianism. ^[3]

from: Wikipedia.org

alterative
Definition:	Tending to restore to normal health.
Synonyms:	curative, healing, remedial, sanative, therapeutic

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