Simon Penny: 60 Years of Situated Machines – Robotic Art as a site for technical and aesthetic innovation, activism and intervention « Following Robots. Free Public Keynote Lecture.
All welcome! Please feel free to distribute this invitation. Professor Simon Penny (University of California, Irvine) 60 Years of Situated Machines – Robotic Art as a site for technical and aesthetic innovation, activism and intervention Presented by the Digital Cultures Program and the Centre for Social Robotics at the University of Sydney. Time: 5:30-6:30pm, Thursday 16 December 2010 Venue: New Law Seminar Auditorium 101, University of Sydney Map: < Synopsis: This keynote will attempt to provide a context for the assessment of the contemporary condition of robotic cultural practices by reviewing the history of the field and the history of pertinent ideas and debates. Bio: Simon Penny has worked as an artist, theorist, teacher and organiser in Digital Cultural Practices, Embodied Interaction, Interactive and Robotic Art for 25 years.
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