Photo Post 3 – Artists and Robots

A couple weekends ago, I visited the Artists and Robots exhibit at the Grand Palais.  The show included a series of robots that could “see” and “draw,” digital and sound engineering displays, as well as humanoid robot designs.  There is a similar exhibit up in the High Museum of Art in Atlanta titled “Design in the Digital Age,” that showcases work by the Joris Laarman Lab in digital design and creation of works of art.  The issue that both exhibits are trying to examine is what role does new technology have in our lives and in our modicums of human achievement such as art.  As our understanding of the brain grows, we are getting closer to modelling human processing and creating potentially conscious robots that exceed our current limits of human ability.  We need to think about what role and limits this neurotechnology should have.

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