The Woodiest, Nevermore-A-Matic, and other of my robots are included in Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive, along with an excellent collection of the work of many fantastic artists, engineers, and scientists.

Review on Bookpage:

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Last week of the exhibition, AI Ecologies, at Artphy curated by @petervanderputten.bsky.social and Roland van Dierendonck. It includes two of my robots plus many other fantastic works e.g. a device that finds faces in grains of sand, a machine-constructed alphabet from the bark patterns of a tree.

AI Ecologies opens in two days at Artphy. The exhibition includes The Woodiest, a robot that, in the performance Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, explains climate change to woodpeckers.
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When the earth is no longer a suitable home, the earthworms will transmogrify into beings better aligned with an increasingly plastic world.

A wee woodland robot called Lizardless Legs competes for territory with local lizards.

The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.

In Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, a robot called The Woodiest translates territorial drumming between closely related woodpecker species that might encounter each other for the first time due to habitat disruption. Then it explains anthropogenic climate change to them in Morse Code on the tree trunk.

A rat king is a mischief of rats entangled at the tails, forced to live every moment of their lives together.

In the installation Rat King, rats are re-embodied as robots entangled into the neglected spaces of the building that the rats call their home.

The feathery robotic being On Beyond Mother Goose has two dance partners to guide her pirouettes and tail flicks: her mate On Beyond Father Gander–far away yet mirroring her moves in perfect synchrony–and the Earth’s magnetic field that they both feel flow through the sensors at their core.

My collaboration with Theun Karelse, Deep Steward (2018-present), is included in the 2-year exhibition “Dutch, More or Less: Contemporary Architecture, Design, and Digital Culture” at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, opening this Friday, May 31st.

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Tomorrow, I am giving a talk about my robots for animals following the “Of Beasts and Bytes” film program of the Go Short Film Festival.

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Become a forest. Speak to an ocean.

I am very pleased to have work in the bright, buoyant show, Y3K: On Distant Keys, at UMass Amherst with a fabulous group of artists and other collaborators. It is open till April 26th.

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Having my first real look at “The Field Guide to Machine Wilderness” book that documents the various projects at ARTIS Royal Zoo done during the Machine Wilderness residences, including mine. Wonderful illustrations and texts by the organizers, Theun Karelse and Alice Smits, and the artists.

A Whiskerer is a rat re-embodied as a robot that gently whisks flowers with its whiskers.

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The robot Nevermore-A-Matic tells our stories about the end of the world to ravens through beak wipes.

Using human language coded in machine language coded in the beak wipes—a signal with significant salience to the birds—it tries to relate the apocalypses that we have imagined or might create.

The robot Nevermore-a-Matic feels the coming winter and prepares to once again tell its tales of gloom and doom to ravens and crows.

In Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, a robot called The Woodiest translates territorial woodpecker drumming signals between species that might meet for the first time in mega-anna due to habitat disruption.

It then tries to explain anthropogenic climate change to them in Morse Code on the tree trunk.

In the museum, the sod surrounding Danger Squirrel Nutkin slowly dies, revealing the deathlessness of the robot’s tiny square patch of ersatz lawn.

The robot Danger Squirrel Nutkin and a park squirrel try to see tail to tail.