Hardware
In the first reading "The Origin and Development of Robotic Art", what really stood out to me was Mark Pauline's works because of the sheer disturbing qualities of the spectacle and process they had. Mark took dead animals and and restored them. I found that this was an interesting processes because to have the guts to take what used to be a living thing and make it function. This is a bit interesting and appealing to me makes me want to go ahead forth and trying something like such to the extreme like Mark. Photos of Pauline's work showed that he used a whole dead rabbit and attached to an exoskeleton to make it work backwards. This type of work can spark controversy because of the fact that it was a living thing.
The main point of this article is to give a brief explanation of what robots really are and that they are a bit different form the concept that everyone has of a classic robot. Robots can be super simple. As simple as the machines that package our products in factories that can be consider a robot.
In the reading "Robo Renga: Or a Tele-Discussion about Art and Robotics," mainly discusses what a robot really is. Errki and Machiko discourse one to the most difficult topics. Reading this article I start to wonder when making my robot it I want to focus on the function or on the looks or the Robot. Errki asked the question in regards to Aaron the drawing robot, and how it has gone from a physical thing to just software on a computer.
For two years already I have been working over the summer at a camp for kids. I realized that there is a lack in arts and crafts activities for the kids to do. Slowly I have been incorporating art projects so that the kids have there own way to self-express. I strongly believe that self-expression is important especially for kids from Second Grade to Sixth Grade. I decided to make a spin art machine so that kids can use it and have fun while they are at it. The materials used were a fan, 2 boxes, and a metal plate. It was sort of challenging at first to find a way to stick the metal together I ended up using epoxy so I don't know how safe it can be so be careful while using this machine.
When I was creating the robot all I was thinking was the drawing robot that was discussed in the "Robo Renga: Or a Tele-Discussion about Art and Robotics," article. Where they were discoursing how the drawing robot because a software robot later. I wanted to keep my “robot” the most physical and interactive as possible because I remember that in “The Origin and Development of Robotic Art" and how robots can be super simple. So this robot I made with a Fan, Box, Metal Plate and epoxy glue for metal. The idea that the robot is not like the robot everyone thinks about when you first think about robots. But according to the reading any type of machinery can be consider robots just depends the way you look at it.