NODE+CODE #20 – You ok, Robot?

For NODE+CODE #20, we explore artistic practices that engage with robotics not merely as mechanical tools, but as living entities situated within a broader ecological and material context. This evening invites you to consider how programmed behavior, natural processes, and human perception intersect.

We’ll have two presentations from three contributors this time around:

Offenbach based artists Carolin Liebl and Nikolas Schmid-Pfähler create sculptures and installations that explore the aesthetic, social and ecological effects of technological developments, using elements of robotics and scientific processes. In their works, material qualities of a visual and haptic nature are just as important as programmed processes, physical laws and chemical reactions.

From Linz, Austria, we’re expecting Amir Bastan whose work explores human consciousness, artificial intelligence, and robotics within media arts and interactivity frameworks. Currently a doctoral researcher at Creative Robotics and lecturer at Kunstuni Linz, Amir’s research focuses on “The Human Robot Transference,” which examines connections between psychoanalysis theories and human-robot interaction.

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