If I were to tell you I work in radio and went to a party where the guests were pissed on, drenched in alcohol and "saved" by 30 firemen, you might assume I had been hanging out with some musicians.
You would, of course, be wrong. I was at Roboexotica, the 9th annual symposium for cocktail robotics, last weekend.
Developers, thinkers and drinkers congregated to experience the cutting edge of robotic revelry. In an attempt "to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication," SHIFZ, monochrom and the Bureau of Philosophy put together a program of discussions, performances and, of course, drink-pouring robots.
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]