Lecture 4 - student slides part Flashcards
MYTHS
- Hephaestus
- Android
- Pandora
- Greek - blacksmith makes Talos the bronze man a mech servant (AI)
- Greek - Pygmalion made Galtea of ivory to marry
- Zeus made her of clay
Who was Archyta?
428 BC - Archytas of Tarentum is the grandpa of robots a steam-powered “pigeon,” was created around 400 to 350 BCE
Who was Al - Jazari
(12-13th century)Arabic Polymath inventor/ mathetician who made win server, water clock, hand wash machine and 1st program robot
What is Karakuri?
In Japan 18-19th moving sculptures evolved from water clocks and astronomy tools.
“Karakukuri Ningyo”- dolls (1603-1868)
“Buta Karakuri “ archer (1662) TAKEDA OMI
What are mechanical Monks?
1560 clockmaker Juanelo Turriano made these prayer sculpture
Who was Leonardo Da Vinci?
Renissance man (1452- 1519) - artist, mechanical knight robot and helicopter
Who was Jacques de Vaucanson
(1709-1782) french digesting duck (1739)
What is cybernetic art?
(1948) study of control and communication of information / contemp art
1. Nicolas Schioffers “Cyspi” 1956
What is generative art?
autonomous system (1960s - Boden and Edmonds)
Who was Nam June Paik>
Korean (1932) – ROBOT K 456 (1964)
Who was Norm white?
Menage (1970) robots reacting to each other and the light
Who was Simon Penny?
Sympathetic Sentience (1996)- sound installation Petit Mal (1996)- bike wheels thing
What was SRL?
1979 Mark Pauline (performance interaciton with robots and humans)
What was Stelarc
A robot man performer “THE THIRD ARM” (1992)
Who was Pierrre Jacque Dro
(1721- 1790)- swiss watchmaker who made automats like “the writer: the muscican: the draughtsman”
