Archive for September, 2010

Picasso, Warhol, and Robot

Warhol once said he wanted to paint like a robot. Painting robots now make his wish possible. This piece is a robot’s interpretation of a Picasso as may have been executed by Warhol.

Warhol Picasso and Robot

Warhol Picasso and Robot (58"x18")

Big claim of course, and probably not true. Well the part where it was painted by my robot is true.

I took an image of Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” and fed it into my robots algorithms. It then came up with the painting you see above. Cool thing about when my robot paints though is that it then is able to repaint the image in a similar manner. This was done to make the three canvas triptych. If you look at each image, you will see slight differences. It is sort of a print, but unique. A close up of one of the three canvases can be seen below.

Like all my work with the robot, this is for sale to support further robotic art development. You can also click here to see other robot generated paintings.

Picasso Warhol and Robot

Is it a Painting or a Print? – Robot Art -

This video is of my art robot painting one of nine similar paintings with a brush on canvas. So it isn’t too boring it plays at 64x speed. I just wanted to get some opinions on whether people considered this artwork, and art made in a similar manner, to be a painting or a print?

Click here to see more videos of my painting art robot.

Jackoon – an abstract painting robot…

You have to love this insane invention. It is a robot that drives around with a big paint brush making random marks as it goes. As far as I am concerned this is pretty sophisticated generative art. I am curious what algorithms decide the speed that it should drive around at. I am also curious if it is limited to just paint in just one color at a time. If that is the case then there are a lot of decisions being made by the artist operator. Will look more into this and see if there is any information on how random these random strokes are, if they are random at all…

Survival Research Labs and its Insane Robotic Performances

So I have a new website which has just about the same content as this blog. So having the two seemed redundant. For that purpose I am redirecting the topics on the blog to cover other people’s robotic art.

Follow this link if you are looking for info on my painting art robot.

Otherwise let me tell you about my first experience with robotic art.  In college a popular performance art piece was put on by Survival Research Labs.  The image below is of RABOT, one if the “labs” robots.

Robot From SRL

SRL Robot

As can be seen, this is not the typical robot.  In fac,t this is basically a rabbit corpse hooked into a machine.  Most of SRL’s robots were similar.  They were not robots in the sense that they operated autonomously, but instead were mostly radio controlled mechanical monsters that would move around and do various cool things for an audience, often in a hazardous manner.

I remember seeing a video of one particularly dangerous performance where a fire belching robot started shooting staples into the crowd.  Pleased crowd members were interviewed after the performance where one showed the staple that had hit him.  It was his souvenir of the performance.  Awesome stuff.

Whenever I feel like I am getting boring talking about robot art, I will look up something insane from these guys and fill you in on it.

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