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Spine Robot on Capp Street

Eddie Codel took some drone video of the spine robot with Karen Marcelo operating it after the screening of Steve Bage’s screening of his SRL film at the roxy. this was the after party at secret alley That time MarkP brought the Spine Robot by Capp Street for a little impromptu demo after the screening of Steve Bage’s Survival Research Labs show documentary, Live at the Extreme Futurist Festival. XFF was in LA in 2012. Screening and demo was in 2017.

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Robotic Futures

The Next Century of Robo-Exoticism: In 1920, Karl Capek coined the term “robot” in a play about mechanical workers organizing a rebellion to defeat their human overlords. Join expert panelists Abigail De Kosnik (Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley), David Ewing Duncan (Arc Fusion), Ken Goldberg (UC Berkeley College of Engineering) and Mark Pauline (Survival Research) as they discuss cultural views of robots in the context of “Robo-Exoticism,” which exaggerates both negative and positive attributes and reinforces old fears, fantasies and stereotypes.

March 3 2020

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