Niki Passath : thinking like a machine : an artists journey into robotics / contributions from Gerald Bast [and nine others] ; translation from German into English, Christopher Barber, Sophie Fruhling.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Series: Edition Die Angewandte, University PressPublisher: Berlin, Germany : Boston, Massachusetts : De Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: 2017Description: 1 online resource (272 pages) : illustrationsContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110543797Other title: Thinking like a machine : an artists journey into roboticsSubject(s): Passath, Niki, 1977- | Passath, Niki, 1977- -- Interviews | Robots in art | Robots in artGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Niki Passath : thinking like a machine : an artists journey into robotics.DDC classification: 700.411 LOC classification: N6811.5.P37 | .A4 2017Online resources: Click to View Summary: In many modes of behavior, people act more and more like machines. In the context of work, people have become a human resource that can be replaced at any time. An existence without purpose cannot be imagined ? just as a machine without function is absurd. Do humans already think like machines? Do they have a "master-slave" relationship with them? Are humans no longer any more than an organic prosthetic fitted to an inorganic body? With his created robotic beings, Niki Passath breaks with this seemingly rational technological system. By eliminating the predominant rationality of the machine, he gives it a new meaning. This book is the first monograph on the artist?s oeuvre. Internationally renowned experts shed light on the many facets of his work.
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In many modes of behavior, people act more and more like machines. In the context of work, people have become a human resource that can be replaced at any time. An existence without purpose cannot be imagined ? just as a machine without function is absurd. Do humans already think like machines? Do they have a "master-slave" relationship with them? Are humans no longer any more than an organic prosthetic fitted to an inorganic body? With his created robotic beings, Niki Passath breaks with this seemingly rational technological system. By eliminating the predominant rationality of the machine, he gives it a new meaning. This book is the first monograph on the artist?s oeuvre. Internationally renowned experts shed light on the many facets of his work.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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