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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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Pindar Van Arman's Robot Paints Realism
(and other Robots)

Pindar Van Arman collaborates with his robot 'Zanelle' to produce acrylic paintings. Apparently, and luckily for us, Zanelle 'prefers' to paint other robots although portraits of people have also been created.

'R2-D2 4x4'

'Run, Asimo, Run'

'The Slave Auction'

'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Cylon'
by: Pindar Van Arman & Zanelle

(Posted with Artist Permission)

www.VanArman.com

Max Dean and Raffaello D'Andrea's Robot Chair

"The Robotic Chair" (Max Dean, Raffaello D'Andrea, Matt Donovan) in the short film Robotic Chair by Peter Lynch. The chair contains 14 motors, two gearboxes and various electronics. Sensors and algorithms aid the robot in re-uniting its missing parts.

Alan Rath's Unique Vision

'Creature' - 2000 (Click for Video)

'I Like To Watch' - 2000 (Click for Video)

'Voyeur' - 1986 (wow)

'Optical Cylinder IV' - 2008

'Rover' - 1998 (Click for Video)
by: Alan Rath

(Posted with Artist Permission)

AlanRath.org

David Lipson's - Lipson Robotics

'Elgin'

'Weston 273'

'Volcon'

'Weston Ampheres'
by: David Lipson

(Posted with Artist Permission)

Lipson Robotics

Ballet Mecanique at the National Gallery of Art

Premiere of all-robotic version of George Antheil's infamous Dada piece for 16 player pianos and percussion orchestra. A rare, historically significant, recording from the NGA. Features new robotic instruments from LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

Speaking of LEMUR - This is GuitarBot. It has to be seen and heard to be believed and appreciated. The following video is "Emercency Bot TV Theme" for GuitarBot, composed by Joshua Fried.

Nemo Gould's Moving Art @ Nemomatic

'Venus Flytrap' (Click for Video)

'The Performer #2' (Click for Video)

'Little Big Man' (Click for Video)

'Rabbot'

'General Debris' (Click for Video)

'Hearth Attack'
by: Nemo Gould

(Posted with Artist Permission)

www.nemomatic.com

Michael Mew

'Buddah Bot 3'

'Taste Test'

'Old Yeller'

'Bad Boys'
by: Michael Mew

(Posted with Artist Permission)

www.michaelmewstudio.com

Laura Barbosa's Uncanny Valley

(The term 'UnCanny Valley' was first introduced by Japanese roboticist Masahiro Mori in 1970 to describe peoples emotional responses to the 'human-like' nature of robots.)

'UnCanny Valley'

'No Fear of Perfection'

'Progress'

'ROBOT'
by: Laura Barbosa

(Posted with Artist Permission)

The Art of Laura Barbosa

Max Chandler's 21st Century Art by: Robot

Max Chandler builds Robots that traverse his canvases, sensing (seeing), thinking (programed), trailing an acrylic wake along it's, occasionally unexpected, way...

'Silent Dancing All'

'Napolitos 3'

'Rising'

'Climbing'
by: Max Chandler (and Robots)

(Posted with Artist Permission)

www.maxchandler.com

Kyle Jones' Robot Attack

'R is for Robot Attack'
by: Kyle Jones

Kyle Jones on Flicker

Guy Robot, the Robot guy...

'Ironman' (Detail)

'Ironman'

'Gyro'

'Euclid'
by: Guy Robot

www.guyrobot.com

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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