Being One, Being Many
If the current development of robotics indicates its future, we will be soon able to create robots that are exactly identical, intentional agents—at least as far as their software is concerned. This raises questions about identity as sameness and identity
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Damith Herath Christian Kroos Stelarc Editors
Robots and Art Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
Cognitive Science and Technology Series editor David M.W. Powers, Adelaide, Australia
More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/11554 Book’s web site including new events, projects and multimedia at http://roboticart.org
Damith Herath · Christian Kroos · Stelarc Editors
Robots and Art Exploring an Unlikely Symbiosis
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Editors Damith Herath Human Centred Technology Research Centre University of Canberra Canberra, ACT Australia
Stelarc Alternate Anatomies Lab, School of Design and Art Curtin University Perth, WA Australia
Christian Kroos Alternate Anatomies Lab, School of Design and Art Curtin University Perth, WA Australia
ISSN 2195-3988 ISSN 2195-3996 (electronic) Cognitive Science and Technology ISBN 978-981-10-0319-6 ISBN 978-981-10-0321-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-0321-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016938046 © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper This Springer imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer Science+Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd.
To Amma and Thattha Damith Herath To my parents Christian Kroos For my partner, Nina Sellars Stelarc
Preface
This is an unusual book. It brings together perspectives of human activity and thinking that seemingly could not be further apart: science, engineering and technology on the one side, the arts and critical culture studies on the other. Yet, in contemporary robotic art they have been intertwined from the start, living off and nurturing each other. The current book follows this symbiotic relationship. It takes a path that meanders between the territories of the unlikely partners, along the fault lines of the areas, changing its style and viewpoint on the run as the narrative of robotic art makes inevitable. For this book to come into being it took an unexpec
