The Robotanica exhibition dealt with the arrival of robotics in nature and exposed, questions and investigated projects that effectuate surroundings. It seems we are witnessing a shift in time with the arrival of robotic creatures and evolved hybrid species in the natural environment.
Is it possible to solve the extinction of animals or plants by replacing them with (half) robotic versions? How can robotics support as well as enrich both mankind and nature to overcome environmental damage caused in the past? And how do we deal with this new, networked, wilderness and its evolution? Robotanica delves into various perspectives and aspects of these new creatures that (are going to) inhabit our surroundings with artists, designers and scientists.
A side program that consisted of talks, demonstrations, performance and workshops accompanied the exhibition. Robotanica opened on Friday 15th of September in the exhibition space of Transnatural Art & Design in Amsterdam, then traveled to Eindhoven for Dutch Design Week in October 2017, and ended with an outdoor exhibition in the garden of Tolhuistuin Amsterdam which included a lecture & performance program at the EYE film museum in June 2018. The Robotanica exhibition in the Tolhuistuin showed an unique setting of living robotic creatures in the outdoor park.
Visit the Robotanica website to view the whole program.
Participants:
Karolina Sobecka (PL) / Rihards Vitols (LV) / Kasia Molga (UK) / Shlomi Mir (IL) / Bigert & Bergström (SE) / TU Delft (NL) / Interactive Architecture Lab (UK) / Austin Stewart (US) / Sofian Audry, Stephen Kelly & Samuel st-Aubin (CA) / North Carolina State University (US) / Aad Kruiswijk (NL) / Jip van Leeuwenstein (NL) / Johanna Schmeer (GER) / Martins Afonso & C. Faure (FR) / Ivan Henriques, Warka Water, Arturo Vittori (IT) / Theo Triantafyllidis (US/GR) / Anastasia Eggers & Ottonie Roeders (GER, Loop.ph (UK)
Tolhuistuin
Date: June 1 - 15, 2018 (free admission)
Address: Tolhuisweg 5, Amsterdam
Eye
Date: June 12, 2018
Address: IJpromenade 1, Amsterdam
Transnatural
Date: Sep. 15 - May 11, 2018
Open: Tues. - Fri., 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. / Sat. 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Address: Lijnbaansgracht 148a, Amsterdam
Dutch Design Week
Date: Oct. 21 - 29, 2017
Adress: VDMA building, Vestdijk 25-27, Eindhoven
Robotanica
2017/2018 programme
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