Cool Hunting
Participants have been announced for the third annual ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Work from the following artists will be included: Leonel Moura; William Tremblay; Jonah Brucker-Cohen (piece pictured here); Alex Baker, LEMUR; Ralf Schreiber; franz alken; Sean Salmon, James Tichenor, Vasil Daskalopoulos, and Phillip Stanley-Marbell; Dan Paluska; Daniel C. Howe; Aaron Arendt; Bruce Shapiro; Ellen Lake and Chris Green; Machine Cent'red Humanz [Chip Kali, Lahaag, and Spess]; A.R.T.; Hayes Raffle, Amanda Parkes, and Hiroshi Ishii; Nicholas Stedman and Rhya Tamasauskas; Pascal Glissmann, Martina Hoefflin; David Birchfield, David Lorig, and Kelly Phillips; James Powderly, Michelle Kempner, Tom Kennedy, Todd Polenberg, Brendan Fitzgerald, and Paul Bartlett. An overview of their pieces is available here.
The show will take place 17-19 September 2004 in Harlem, New York City.
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