There's a good chance that you happened upon this little, underused blog because you saw a box covered in aluminum foil and a silver notebook next to it at one of the coffee houses in Rochester, NY. If that is the case, thanks for checking it out. Here's a little more background on what I'm doing:
The techno-future project is modernized form of a photo project I worked on last year, named Metallic Memories of the Future. I took the evil robots from the Hannah Barbara cartoons I adored during my youth (and continue to adore) and archived them by making models and photographing them. What I found beautiful in these silly machines was the relentless imagination in how technology could be implemented and manipulated during an age when technology could absolutley become anything. Compared to what we are surrounded by today, it was a fantasy world full of science-inspired magic and life.
Shown above are three of my images. The topmost is the Incredible Magnetroid, the middle is the Cannon Rocket Robot, and the bottommost is the Rock Thrower Robot. The IM is from a
Birdman episode in which he causes havoc, steals some titanium from the military, and puts Birdman in a tight spot with his magnetic beams. The CRR and RTR are from a
Space Ghost episode in which the evil Metallus uses his robot army to attack Ghost Planet and destroy Space Ghost. I am currently in the process of reshooting the little robots in color, which I hope will yield something a bit more finished looking.
This brings us to the aluminum foil robo-boxes you saw. I want to understand what is in our heads these days. Is technology still a fantasy world? Or has it become too real, too tangible in a time when computer chip technology is advancing at a quite exponential rate. Have we come to a point where computer intelligence and its physical embodiment (the robot) are points of legitimate worry? Or are we hopeful? Do we see a bright future ahead? And what about the actual machine-human interfaces that are happening right now? Neuron-controlled machines and the like exist both in prosthetics and more
experimental situations. (When looking at the linked video I encourage you to be skeptical - it's an enormous stretch to say a petri dish of cultured neurons has any variety of consciousness - it is essentially a
self-modifiable computer chip.)
It is interesting to think of how movies and media have portrayed robots.
It's also intersting to think of how movies and media have affected the real robot industry. Is there cross-communication? More on that later...
So, feel free to submit any amount of robots into my robo-boxes. Don't limit your imagination, your hopes, or even fears. Eventually models will be made and photographed and displayed. I am so excited to see what you all come up with.
There's a good chance that you happened upon this little, underused blog because you saw a box covered in aluminum foil and a silver notebook next to it at one of the coffee houses in Rochester, NY. If that is the case, thanks for checking it out. Here's a little more background on what I'm doing:
The techno-future project is modernized form of a photo project I worked on last year, named Metallic Memories of the Future. I took the evil robots from the Hannah Barbara cartoons I adored during my youth (and continue to adore) and archived them by making models and photographing them. What I found beautiful in these silly machines was the relentless imagination in how technology could be implemented and manipulated during an age when technology could absolutley become anything. Compared to what we are surrounded by today, it was a fantasy world full of science-inspired magic and life.
Shown above are three of my images. The topmost is the Incredible Magnetroid, the middle is the Cannon Rocket Robot, and the bottommost is the Rock Thrower Robot. The IM is from a Birdman episode in which he causes havoc, steals some titanium from the military, and puts Birdman in a tight spot with his magnetic beams. The CRR and RTR are from a Space Ghost episode in which the evil Metallus uses his robot army to attack Ghost Planet and destroy Space Ghost. I am currently in the process of reshooting the little robots in color, which I hope will yield something a bit more finished looking.
This brings us to the aluminum foil robo-boxes you saw. I want to understand what is in our heads these days. Is technology still a fantasy world? Or has it become too real, too tangible in a time when computer chip technology is advancing at a quite exponential rate. Have we come to a point where computer intelligence and its physical embodiment (the robot) are points of legitimate worry? Or are we hopeful? Do we see a bright future ahead? And what about the actual machine-human interfaces that are happening right now? Neuron-controlled machines and the like exist both in prosthetics and more experimental situations. (When looking at the linked video I encourage you to be skeptical - it's an enormous stretch to say a petri dish of cultured neurons has any variety of consciousness - it is essentially a self-modifiable computer chip.)
It is interesting to think of how movies and media have portrayed robots.
It's also intersting to think of how movies and media have affected the real robot industry. Is there cross-communication? More on that later...
So, feel free to submit any amount of robots into my robo-boxes. Don't limit your imagination, your hopes, or even fears. Eventually models will be made and photographed and displayed. I am so excited to see what you all come up with.
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