On Interference
If “we judge every object by analogy with our own bodies,” as Heinrich Wölfflin argues, then Robin Evan’s piezoelectric arthropods and the Boston Dynamic’s robotic mules are disturbing, because they are a type of self-mirroring. These mechanical creatures that project our unchecked desires, reveal a...
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Ardeth
2020
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| Mynediad Ar-lein: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Crynodeb: | If “we judge every object by analogy with our own bodies,” as Heinrich Wölfflin argues, then Robin Evan’s piezoelectric arthropods and the Boston Dynamic’s robotic mules are disturbing, because they are a type of self-mirroring. These mechanical creatures that project our unchecked desires, reveal anthropomorphic characteristics of a contemporary subject: hysterically tumbling and staying afloat throughout adverse and changing external conditions, by reorganizing their internal structure and operative protocols. Partially primal and partially produced with advanced technology, they also reflect a contemporary body of work in architectural discourse that seems particularly relevant in a time of ideological diffusion, when clusters of positions and ideas emerge precariously, not as tactfully positioned manifestoes, but more so, as unnerving life-forms. |
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