Posted on: September 27, 2012
Posted on: March 27, 2018
“We’re functioning automaticAnd we are dancing mechanicWe are the robots, we are the robots…” (Kraftwerk, 1978). Kraftwerk’s The Robots, features on the band’s 1978 album Man-Machine. It reflects both the band’s cyborg-like stage theatrics, their futurist aesthetic, and society’s pre-occupation with mechanical and artificial humans. This fascination with robotic or artificial humans has presented itself in various forms for century’s. Such as Kempelen’s Mechanical Turk in 1769, the chess playing mechanical automaton (Collins & d’Escrivan,… read more
Posted on: October 26, 2015
The textual content posted by spambots in online contact and comment forms throughout the web is not without artistic and creative merit. A spambot’s use of imaginatively strung together keywords, phrases and ambiguous sentences aimed at manipulating the decision making processes of other web crawling and indexing bots can often include content which reflects current news, events and trends, which in turn generates new and unexpected narratives. An Open Call for Spambots intends to provide an… read more