artbots2004 in harlem/nyc this weekend

It's an ArtBots Invasion in Harlem!

It's an ArtBots invasion in Harlem! The Third Annual ArtBots: The Robot
Talent Show will take place on September 17, 18, & 19 from noon to 6:00pm at
The Mink Building on 126th Street & Amsterdam Avenue in Harlem. Featuring
the work of 20 artists and groups from seven countries, the show celebrates
the strange and wonderful collision of shifty artists, disgraced engineers,
high/low/no tech hackers, rogue scientists, beauty school dropouts, backyard
pyros, and industrial espionage that has come to define the emerging field
of robotic art. Participants include robots that sketch, carve, float,
wiggle, hum, ring, grow, wander, and sing, as well a number of works the
form and function of which are not yet well understood.

2004 ArtBots Participants

Read the full ArtBots 2004 Press Release .

FACTS AT A GLANCE:
Event: ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show
Cost: This is a FREE event
Time: Noon to 6:00 p.m.
Date: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 17, 18, & 19, 2004
Location: The Mink Building
Corner of 126th Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Harlem, New York City
Subway: 1/9 or A/C/B/D to 125th St.

Directions to the show
http://artbots.org/2004/


ArtBots t-shirt!

About ArtBots
ArtBots is an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making
robots. Each year we publish an open call for submissions, inviting artists
from around the world to send us information about their work. No firm
rules exist on the types of work that can participate; if you think it's a
robot and you think it's art, we encourage you to submit. The final list of
participants is a mix of works selected from the open call submissions and
additional artists invited by the ArtBots curators.

The ArtBots curators for 2004 are: Douglas Repetto (Columbia University
Computer Music Center), Mark Tribe (Columbia University Digital Media
Center), and Mary Flanagan (Hunter College Film/Media Department). ArtBots
is sponsored by the Columbia University Computer Music Center and Digital
Media Center.

The first ArtBots took place in May 2002 at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn and
included the work of ten artists/groups. The show was curated by Douglas
Repetto and Philip Galanter (New York University). Nearly six hundred people
visited the show during its one-day run, and the show received very
positive coverage in many print and online publications in the USA and
internationally, including The New York Times, TimeOutNY, BoingBoing.net,
and NASA's Cool Robot of the Week website.

The second ArtBots show was held at Eyebeam Gallery in Manhattan in July
2003 as part of Eyebeam's summer robotics festival, ROBOT. Twenty two works
by artists and groups from six countries participated in the show, which
again received extensive press coverage, including national TV (CNN, NBC,
NY1), radio (NPR, Future Tense, WBAI, Studio 360), print (Newsweek, Wired
Magazine, New York Times, New York Press, Nature), and online publications.
About two thousand people visited the two-day show, which was curated by
Douglas Repetto, Philip Galanter, and Jenny Lee (Pratt Institute).