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The Robot in Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin (this time, the Berlin part)

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The Robot is pleased to once again be part of Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin. This time, in Berlin.
Place: Haus der Kulturen der Welt
Date: Sunday 21 August – From 12pm to 3pm – Temporary exhibition – HKW Auditorium

Info at:
https://www.art-action.org/site/en/prog/22/berlin/prog_exhibitions.php

Find the full program at:
https://www.art-action.org/site/en/upper/news/index.php

January 15th: WTRS Opening and Panel Event at gallery@Calit2

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Edit: In case you missed it, here’s the YouTube stream:

January 15th… “What the Robot Saw” opens online at gallery@Calit2!

The Human will be giving a talk about WTRS, and then she’ll be hosting a panel discussion on the broader issues of algorithmic bias and social media visibility surrounding the project. The Robot and The Human are honored that these amazing guest panelists have agreed to join us:
Memo Akten, Dr. Sophie Bishop, Dr. Aylin Caliskan, and Dr. Daniel James Joseph

Please join us for this online event! January 15th, 10AM-Noon PST

https://www.facebook.com/events/830702727778454
https://qi.ucsd.edu/events/event.php?id=3002

“Appearances” online exhibition at Upstream Gallery

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The Robot is psuper psyched and honored to have “What the Robot Saw” included in the “Appearances” online exhibition at Upstream Gallery.
Curated by the amazing Joesphine Bosma! Online Opening: Saturday, September 26th, 17.00 (CEST) (8AM Pacific Daylight Time.)

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APPEARANCES
Curated by Josephine Bosma
26 September – 24 October 2020

Participating artists:
Addie Wagenknecht, Annie Abrahams & Daniel Pinheiro, Amy Alexander, Claudia Del & Jaume Clotet, Evelina Domnitch & Dimitry Gelfand, Knowbotiq Research, Nancy Mauro-Flude, PolakVanBekkum, Stephanie Syjuco, Valentina Gal, Winnie Soon

Online Opening, Saturday September 26th, 17.00 (CEST)

Location: http://www.upstream.gallery

Fronting Motion at Upstream Gallery
PolakVanBekkum’s Fronting Motion, as part of the online exhibition on upstream.gallery, will also be exhibited physically in Upstream Gallery’s private viewing space for the first week of the show (26 September – 3 October)

appearance | əˈpɪər(ə)ns |

1 the way that someone or something looks: she checked her appearance in the mirror.
• an impression given by someone or something: she read it with every appearance of interest.

2 an act of performing or participating in a public event: he is well known for his television appearances.

3 an act of arriving or becoming visible: the sudden appearance of her daughter startled her.
• a process of coming into existence or use: the appearance of the railway.

Appearances exist on the edge of reality and perception. Appearances can be sudden or take their time to show. They can be lasting, decaying or downright misleading. We often see what we want to see. We more often see what we expect to see. Most of the time the poetry of that situation escapes us.

APPEARANCES IN THE GREATER CLOUD
The information society is also the society of the shattered mirror and the fractured lens. Countless reflections of and on the real make up a large labyrinth of fragmented truths, half-truths and fictions. Together they form a beautiful but also daunting abyss of appearances. The technological means surrounding us create an extreme density of these reflections, which in turn impacts on existence itself. New perception and navigational skills need to be learned. Of these, basic mechanical skills are relatively easy to obtain, but for a profound understanding, of what we see and how and why we see it, we need different kinds of skillsets. One important thing we still lack in this context is a new, extended form of intuition, a non-verbal knowledge grown from extensive, genuinely authentic experiences of various network modalities. This exhibition offers a range of them. It shows a variety of ways artists use the Greater Cloud, the mother of all networks and cloud platforms: the internet.

Josephine Bosma (1962) is a freelance critic and theorist working in the expanded field of art and new media. She is specialized in art and the Internet, and lectures and publishes internationally. In 2011 NAi/Institute for Network Cultures published Josephine Bosma’s book Nettitudes – Let’s Talk Net Art.

Image: Amy Alexander, What The Robot Saw (still) (2020)

NewMediaFest2020 ‘9 – The 365 Days Diary

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The Robot is pleased to be part of Wilfried Agricola De Cologne’s Corona Shut Down? Once again: This time at
NewMediaFest2020 ‘9 – The 365 Days Diary
06 September 2020
Los Angeles has become Wilfried’s 2nd home in 2020 its now the 2nd month that TAM – Torrance Art Museum is presenting NewMediaFest2020 – prolonging the online screenings in the framework of MAIDEN LA until 20 September – read the complete article on http://retro.newmediafest.org/6-september-2020/ – after 20 September the 7 programs will continued streaming online on NewMediaFest2020.

XCOAX 2020 July 8th – 10th! (Also, the Human has written a paper.)

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The Robot is pleased to be part of the xcoax 2020 conference/exhibition July 8th – 10th!
http://www.xcoax.org/
8th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X

Although originally scheduled for Graz, Austria. this year XCOAX be online.
What the Robot Saw’s page is here. It includes a video presentation by The Human, and some other goodies.

“xCoAx is an exploration of the intersection where computational tools and media meet art and culture, in the form of a multi-disciplinary enquiry on aesthetics, computation, communication and the elusive X factor that connects them all.
xCoAx has been an occasion for international audiences to meet and exchange ideas, in search for interdisciplinary synergies among computer scientists, artists, media practitioners, and theoreticians at the thresholds between digital arts and culture.”

Also, The Human has written a new paper about the Robot and Algorithmic Bias.
The Algorithm is the Message: What the Robot Saw