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monochrom festival and exhibition // Roböxotica 2005 / Vienna (16 November - 20 November): Roböxotica is the first and, inevitably, leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics. Until recently, no attempts were made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebensraum, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Mr. Turing would without a doubt test this out. Scientists, researchers, computer geeks and artists from all over the world participate to build cocktail robots and discuss about technological innovation, futurology and science fiction.
Roböxotica is a cooperation with Shifz and 'Bureau für Philosophie', Vienna.

Public Fiction:

The topic of this year’s event is Public Fictions – Robots for (almost) everyone! The title public fictions refers to two different ways of collaboratively generating technical artefacts and cultural conventions: On the one hand it refers to the fact that society and technology are partly structured by fictions generated by the two of them together. It seems that certain technological developments have partly been defined by imaginariae derived from popular culture. For example, investigations on artificial intelligence have to a great extent been triggered by Stanley Kubrick’s movie 2001 (1969); and our ideas about cyberspace were heavily influenced by the cyberpunk literature of the 1980s (William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, a.o.) Robots have especially always played a part in the inventory of popular imaginary and political utopia: they represent a fantasy about post humanism as well as our hopes for a better society through delegation of work (both physical and mental). Even though developers and financiers tend to claim the opposite, one often gets the impression that robotics – especially when trying to imitate the human body – develops more or less independent from the modern parameters of usefulness. According to the paradigm that complex processes cannot be simulated through linear logic, a new approach has developed during the last few years. This new approach is called ‘social robotics’ and it will be one of the main issues of this year’s Roboexotica.

The focus of the symposium which will be held in this context is to demonstrate that the practices of technological progress are not isolated from society’s realm of imagination. Furthermore, public fictions have a normative function: they define what actually can be thought or done. Moreover, public fictions have a lot to do with developers’ intentions and funding requests: they define what developers are interested in as well as tendering and influence submission prose. One of the mightiest public fictions in this respect may well be the tale of the increase of prosperity due to technology. This tale has been the stimulus of technological progress for the last 200 years. The symposium is especially interested in the interaction of old tales and with their updated versions in various media formats, like novels, statistics, articles in magazines, movies, TV, and internet forums. A second aspect is the fact that digital networking technologies offer new possibilities for collaboratively producing texts and artefacts. The term ‘Public Fiction’ is used literally here: what kinds of cooperative fictions are generated through non-human entities (bots), and in what context? And what are the consequences for the concepts of the ‘work of art’ and the ‘author’, and for poetology?

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posted by johannes, Tuesday, November 15, 2005

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monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993.
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