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		<title>Do Robots Dream Of Electric Art?, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon</title>
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Do Robots Dream Of Electric Art?
Curated by João Pinharanda
September 28th &#62; November 25th, 2007
10 AM &#62; 01 AM, closes Mondays
Fundação EDP, Museu da Electricidade
Lisbon, Portugal
Three moving-head robots are aparently carving a drawing on the wall with red laser beams.

scroll down for portuguese version
Disco Wall Painting
text by João Lima Pinharanda
Three &#8220;disco&#8221; robots (of the &#8220;moving heads&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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Do Robots Dream Of Electric Art?<br />
Curated by João Pinharanda</p>
<p>September 28th &gt; November 25th, 2007<br />
10 AM &gt; 01 AM, closes Mondays<br />
Fundação EDP, Museu da Electricidade<br />
Lisbon, Portugal</p>
<p>Three moving-head robots are aparently carving a drawing on the wall with red laser beams.</p>
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<p>scroll down for portuguese version</p>
<p>Disco Wall Painting<br />
text by João Lima Pinharanda</p>
<p>Three &#8220;disco&#8221; robots (of the &#8220;moving heads&#8221; variety) trace upon the grey wall the precarious outline of a human<br />
being &#8211; probably a male.<br />
A &#8220;disco&#8221; can, in this context, be seen as a new kind of cave, or even a &#8220;post-cave&#8221;. The darkness of the space, its<br />
near subterranean location, the darkened walls, the play of lights, the collective rituals taking place inside it all<br />
concur to confirm that scenographic metaphor.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the robots are equally beings of a new kind which seem to collaborate here in a remake: in a joint<br />
action, they draw an ancient being that preceded them in time, a being that conceived them, a human.<br />
And they do it by swerving from the accomplishment of the actions for which they were designed and built by that<br />
same being: to follow the rhythms of dance music at a disco, heightening the interplay of light and darkness, sound<br />
and noise, body and bodies.<br />
And they do it here in anomalous conditions: continuously, without music, with no humans on the dancefloor,<br />
combining efforts in the construction of an obsessive drawing that is in no way decorative, sophisticated or rhythmic.</p>
<p>The role played by these robots takes the form of a transferred regression: they are not evoking what they themselves were, but what the men who designed them were once. This piece by Miguel Soares fictionalises the appropriation, by robots, of a founding memory of humankind. That memory does not belong to them: have the beings that created them inserted it, inadvertently or unconsciously, into their programming? We do not know.<br />
Anyway, these &#8220;created&#8221; beings have appropriated some secret file of human reminiscences which probably has survived and may always be<br />
deciphered under all the layers of subsequent technological and digital (in)formation.</p>
<p>The title of this piece by Miguel Soares evokes one of the most effective projections of mankind&#8217;s fear regarding their own creations, from its Romantic incarnation as Frankenstein&#8217;s Monster to the post-modern androids of Philip K. Dick (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, 1968, where Miguel Soares found his title) and Ridley Scott (Blade Runner, 1982).</p>
<p>This artist&#8217;s vast body of work, which comprises installation and video along with the construction of mechanical and electronic objects, not forgetting the composition of digital images or synthesised sounds, culminates here in the most extreme of metaphors: the automata&#8217;s possibility of autonomous action and awareness has led them to resume the evolutionary cultural line of mankind, their original creators. Returning to a logic of caves as iconographic sanctuaries,<br />
these &#8220;disco&#8221; robots paint/engrave a human image on the walls available to them. And their action is charged with the same ambiguity already described by the historians of the Palaeolithic age: the model used is not necessarily the animal used as a basis for daily sustenance; it may be the most venerated, the one whose capture does not stem from an act of physical survival but from a will to cultural endurance, aggregating the group&#8217;s identity and catalysing its social communion.</p>
<p>Lisbon, 12 September 2007<br />
João Lima Pinharanda</p>
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<p>.</p>
<p>Versão Portuguesa / Portuguese Version</p>
<p>A peça de Miguel Soares ficciona a apropriação, pelos robots, de uma memória matricial da humanidade. Essa<br />
memória não lhes pertence: os seres seus criadores fizeram-na passar inadvertida ou inconscientemente para os<br />
programas? Não sabemos. Seja como for, os seres &#8220;criados&#8221; apropriaram-se de um qualquer ficheiro secreto de<br />
reminiscências humanas. E, regressando à lógica das cavernas como santuários iconográficos, estes robots &#8220;de<br />
discoteca&#8221;, pintam/gravam uma esquemática imagem humana nas paredes.<br />
A sua acção carrega-se da mesma ambiguidade detectada pelos historiadores do paleolítico: pode não ser<br />
imediatamente o animal de que se necessita para o sustento diário aquele que se desenha; pode ser o que mais se<br />
venera, aquele cuja captura não resulta de um acto de sobrevivência física mas de uma vontade de sobrevivência<br />
cultural; um agregador da identidade e catalizador da comunhão social do grupo. A verdade é que se trata sempre<br />
de evocar (antecipar ou celebrar) uma caçada.</p>
<p>Pintura Mural de Discoteca</p>
<p>Três robots &#8220;de discoteca&#8221; (do tipo moving heads) desenham na parede cinzenta a silhueta precária de um ser<br />
humano &#8211; provavelmente do sexo masculino.<br />
Uma discoteca pode, neste contexto, ser vista como uma gruta de novo tipo ou uma “pós-gruta”. A escuridão do<br />
espaço, a sua localização quase subterrânea, a cor escurecida das paredes, os jogos de luz, os rituais colectivos nela<br />
desenvolvidos concorrem para confirmar essa metáfora cenográfica.</p>
<p>Por outro lado, os robots são seres também de um novo tipo que igualmente parecem participar aqui num remake:<br />
na sua acção conjunta desenham um ser antigo, que os precedeu no tempo, um ser que os concebeu, um humano. E fazem-no, desviando-se do desempenho das funções para que foram, por esse mesmo ser, projectados e construídos:<br />
acompanhar os ritmos da música de dança de uma discoteca potenciando os jogos entre luz e escuridão, som e ruído, corpo e corpos.<br />
E fazem-no aqui em condições anómalas: ininterruptamente, sem música, sem humanos na pista de dança, conjugando-se na construção de um desenho obsessivo que nada tem de decorativo, sofisticado ou ritmado.</p>
<p>O título desta obra de Miguel Soares remete para uma das mais eficazes projecções dos receios da humanidade em relação às suas próprias criações. Tal receio vem do Frankenstein romântico e passa pelos andróides pós-modernos de Philip K. Dick (&#8221;Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?&#8221;, 1968, de onde Miguel Soares retira o seu título)/Ridley Scott (&#8221;Blade Runner&#8221;, 1982).</p>
<p>A vasta obra do artista, utilizando a instalação e o vídeo, a construção de objectos, mecânicos e electrónicos, a composição de imagens digitais ou sons electrónicos culmina aqui na mais extrema metáfora: a possibilidade de autonomia de acção e consciência dos autómatos leva-os a retomar a linha cultural evolutiva da própria humanidade que os criou.<br />
Regressando à lógica das cavernas como santuários iconográficos, estes robots &#8220;de discoteca&#8221; pintam/gravam uma imagem humana nas paredes que lhes cabem em sorte. E a sua acção carrega-se da mesma ambiguidade já detectada pelos historiadores do paleolítico: pode não ser imediatamente o animal de que se necessita para o sustento diário aquele que se desenha; pode ser o que mais se venera, aquele cuja captura não resulta de um acto de sobrevivência física mas de uma vontade de sobrevivência cultural, agregadora da identidade e catalizador da comunhão social do grupo.</p>
<p>Lisboa, 12 de Setembro de 2007<br />
João Lima Pinharanda<br />
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invitation</p>
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		<title>Gustavo (v1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 1999 21:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
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variable dimentions
1999
junk bag, motorized arm, laser pointer
This is version 1 of Gustavo, made for Espaço 1999, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisbon
A junk bag is appently carving a drawing on a wall with a red laser beam.
Gustavo is a yellow junk bag out of which cames a motorized arm with a laser pointer that apparently [...]]]></description>
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<p>variable dimentions<br />
1999<br />
junk bag, motorized arm, laser pointer<br />
This is version 1 of Gustavo, made for <a href="http://migso.net/blog/?p=1411"><em>Espaço 1999</em></a>, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisbon</p>
<p>A junk bag is appently carving a drawing on a wall with a red laser beam.<br />
Gustavo is a yellow junk bag out of which cames a motorized arm with a laser pointer that apparently is<br />
carving a near-circular drawing on the wall through a near-circular continuous movement.<br />
Of course, I previously have carved the drawing on the wall, according to the line described by the laser.<br />
Gustavo stands for the name of the hypothetical disposed robot.<br />
&#8220;Do androids dream of electric sheep?&#8221; * Would robot-artists carve drawings on a wall?&#8221;</p>
<p>* (title of the Philip K. Dick book on which the movie Blade Runner was based)</p>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 1999 11:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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Later used in the cover and booklet of <a href="http://migso.net/blog/?p=1894">002 audio CD</a>.</p>
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