Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Robots and avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future


Robots and avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future is an interdisciplinary exhibition that will be organized in Maribor, Slovenia, October 5–30, 2012, based on technological objects and extensions such as robots, avatars, virtual worlds, telepresence and real time presence in correlation to social creative places, cultural environments, interactive entertainment and play space. This interconnected framework of events comprises selected mobile exhibition artworks, workshop learning experiences, and artist interviews and discussions.

Robots and Avatars exhibition departs from pop culture imagery and re-imagines these technologies for a new reality: how do we envisage our future relationships with robot and avatar colleagues and playmates, and at what point does this evolution cross our personal boundaries of what it is to be a living, feeling human being?

The programme is full-filled of debates, workshop, special sessions, ...

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