Chatting with the Bots: Understanding Ourselves
Why do we trust ELIZA or PIP with our deepest secrets? Why would we invent a paranoid schizophrenic chatbot and make it talk to ELIZA? I speak to dogs, whether they understand or not, and [...]
At the Uitmarkt with a debate on robot rights
The Uitmarkt in Amsterdam is the national opening of the cultural season, click here for more information. Here art institutions, cultural organizations and performing arts and music companies [...]
Chatting with the Bots: PIP, the Lovebot
How intimate can we get with our bots? And what can we learn from them about love? These are the questions posed by ROBOT LOVE, explored by means of a variety of artworks, literature and [...]
Chatting With the Bots: History of Chatbots
You have probably talked with a robot, more often than you might realize. Your phone is likely filled with bots such as Siri or Google Assistant. In this series of blogs, I explore how chatbots [...]
Chatting With the Bots: an Introduction to Chatbots
You have probably talked with a robot, more often than you might realize. Your phone is likely filled with chatbots such as Siri or Google Assistant, as well as with apps, sites and services [...]
The five most used words in song titles. Hito Steyerl is sharing them with us.
In the annual Power 100 of the international art magazine Art Review, Hito Steyerl is number 1. She is named one of the most influential artists of the moment. In Robot Love, the first artwork [...]
Homeless robot Dirk is roaming the streets of the inner city of Eindhoven
Dirk, the roaming robot, is the first free-running, homeless robot that is invariably mistaken for a human being. An interesting and at the same time a shocking experience for the unsuspecting [...]
The magical entrance to Robot Love: Enter Aliveness, a reinvented door
A door that opens when you are standing in front of it. That sounds trivial, but in the work of Adams Ponnis it gives one a surprising and at the same time astonishing experience. It is as if a [...]
The androids are coming. Art and robots?
Art and robots. That seems to be in contrast with each other, but in the Robot Love Expo Experience in Eindhoven, we see that artists indeed take the relationship between humans and robots, and [...]
Announcement of participating artists in Robot Love
Eindhoven, May 29, 2018 15 weeks left before the expo experience ROBOT LOVE opens its doors in the Campina Milk Factory in Eindhoven on September 15th. The opening and press conference will be [...]