Robots and art: exploring an unlikely symbiosis

摘要

For many people, the term "robotic art" would bring to mind machines in front of easels, attempting to paint what they have been programmed to paint, but perhaps failing because they do not have the creativity that is latent in the creators who programmed them. However, as the editors of Robots and art explain early on in the book, this is not what they mean by the term robotic art. Instead, in robotic art, "the art is not in the machine, the machine is the art." So first and foremost, it is worth noting that this book deals with robots as art, not as artists. With this in mind, Robots and art is a collection of 15 essays on key ideas and artwork within the field of robotic art. The essays are organized into four key themes-otherness, explorations, embodiment, and interaction-along with six more chapters covering the prologue, history of the field, and epilogue.