Project 1 - Demonstration Day

Demonstration Day proved to be a bit of a disappointment, after a few practices we performed for the class, our speech and slideshow combo had to be performed in another room as we didn't have access to a projector in the room we were set up in, however I do feel we addressed our theme up front which gave the demonstration of our work more meaning to the viewers. Our speech on theme and our project was given prior to our show, it is shown below.

"Some say robots are the artists of the future. With robots already taking jobs from humans in several industries, it's not surprising that we feel threatened by the prospect of robots staking a claim on the creative realm, which until now has been a solely human practice. Robots are unbiased and therefore are able to achieve true randomness or precision. This is where the possibility exists for robots to overtake humans in the arts.

Our work symbolizes the way the art world feels endangered by the sophistication and mathematical precision of these machines, while the human hand remains just that - human. We have set our work within the confines of a handmade prison, the robot however unperturbed continues to make sophisticated, multi-dimensional and multi-media art.

So, set your prejudices aside and enjoy our take on robot art."

Unfortunately our demonstration didn't go off as planned, we had a stop on one of the wheels that was too tight and we didn't realise this until too late, the photo that shows a series off circles was created because one wheel was jammed so instead of running our program the robot spun in circles, also tangling itself in the wool it was trailing in the process.



Although things didn't go as planned we still go the images we needed, I did realise from the exercise that the thread arm needed more development, there was the risk with the movements triggered from the robots sensors even if the program ran as intended that there still was a risk of tangles if hooks were missed or if the robot back tracked.



I enjoyed working with my group on this project and I liked our themes and media we used, they certainly made us different from other groups in the class.