4.06.10 at 8 30 pm at LABORATORIA  will run the discussion ROBOT AUTONOMY?

There could be various approaches on the question of ROBOT AUTONOMY: psychological, technical, economical, futurist, artistic. Their intersections provide us with scientific - apocalypic concepts, utopian theories, engineering practices. The discussion will start with a demonstration of "flies-painters", "light - hunters" created by David Bowen. Participants: David Bowen, artist, Oleg Aronson, philosopher, Aleksandr Olikevich, engineer-inventor, Pavel Cherkashin, general manager of distribution department Microsoft Rus, Timour Shoukine, psychologist, Valentin Diakonov, art critic. Moderator: Daria Parkhomenko.

4.06.10, 6 pm  at LABORATORIA will be the lecture ROBOTS IN CONTEMPORARY ART: CONCEPTUAL AND TECHNICAL ASPECTS  by David Bowen, artist, professor of sculpture and robotic technics in Minnesota University (Duluth, Minnesota, USA).

http://www.dwbowen.com/

4.06.10 at LABORATORIA starts an exhibition David BOWEN (USA) TELE-PRESENT WIND. Artistic effects of nature elements technic transformation (aesthetic data).  At the exhibition will be presented robotic installations, video and drawings made by robots. More information please find here: http://newlaboratoria.ru/www/eng/exhibition/