Make Blog: Preparing cocktail robots for Roboexotica
Bre Pettis reports from the workshop with my students in Graz.
Roboexotica gathers a wide variety of cocktail robot makers from around the world and bring them together for robot parties and presentations. I'm in Southern Austria in the city of Graz today visiting the information design college where a group of artists who are putting their cocktail robots together. The group shown above is in the process of putting together a scary evil bunny robot that pours drinks for you at the flip of a switch. There is also a group making a slot machine robot that pumps you a drink when you cash out your coins. I'm doing an internship in Vienna this month and will be reporting on Roboexotica as it happens. Stay tuned!
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. [more]