Ryota Kuwakubo "R/V"

Category

Exhibition

Year

2005

Institution

Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM), Yamaguchi

Comment

An affinity between humans and robots. Cute robots are equipped with monitoring screens reflecting participants faces. YCAM opens an exhibition of artist Ryota Kuwabuko's new installation "R/V". In this work, participants who use remote control from console boxes to operate robots exchange their "visual and auditory senses" with the robots. The participant can see images in the space through the eyes and ears of the robot, and the robots can talk with each other as persons do. In this environment, reciprocal actions and dialogues between "person-person", "person-robot", and "robot-robot" have influence on each other. This project tries to see how such strange physical feelings will be transformed through interaction with the surroundings. (Content: ycam.jp)