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ROBOTS AND AVATARS – OUR COLLEAGUES AND PLAYMATES OF THE FUTURE
Interdisciplinary exibition
Maribor, Slovenia, October 5–30, 2012

Robots and avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future is an interdisciplinary exhibition based on technological objects and extensions such as robots, avatars, virtual worlds, telepresence and real time presence in correlation to social creative places, cultural environments, interactive entertainment and play space. This interconnected framework of events comprises selected mobile exhibition artworks, workshop learning experiences, and artist interviews and discussions.

Opening – Friday, October 5, 2012:

2–4 pm performance
Martin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamočanin / MoTA (SI): Public avatar, interactive social experiment; online
Venue: KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia

8 pm Opening of the exhibition
Robots and avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future
The exhibition presents a variety of immersive experiences – from unconventional approaches to social networks, re-defining and exploring their influences and dead ends, through virtual worlds rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to electro-acoustic biological extensions, wearable technologies and interactive robotic elements that affect and try to define us, to seemingly ordinary, human behavior imitating robots.
Exhibiting artists:
Louis Philippe Demers/Processing Plant (CA, DE): The Blind Robot; Ruairi Glynn / Motive Colloquies (UK): Sociable Assymetry; Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, Erik Fleming, David Steele (UK): Visions of Our Communal Dreams; Niki Passath (AT): ZOE; Mey Lean Kronemann (DE): lumiBots; Sašo Sedlaček (SI): Beggar 1.0; Andre Almeida, Gonçalo Lopes, Francisco Dias, Guilherme Martins (PT): NAVI; Marco Donnarumma (UK): Music for flesh II; Martin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamočanin / MoTA (SI): Public avatar, Martin Bricelj Baraga (SI): RoboVox; Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk (FR, UK, NL): Naked on Pluto; Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico / Art is Open Source (IT): The Electronic Man; Matthieu Cherubini (CH): rep.licants.org; Martin Hans Schmitt (DE): Robot world
Venues: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9 (entrance from Svetozarevska street)
and KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia

9 pm Opening performance
Marco Donnarumma (UK): Music for flesh II
Venue: KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia
After: social gathering/open communication between artists and audience

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October 8–30, 2012
Guided tours from Monday to Friday each full hour from 9 am till 4 pm, on Saturday by appointement -  by Maja Vuksanovič – Pardeilhan
Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia
KIT KIBLA, Glavni trg 14, Maribor, Slovenia

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Debate Robots and Avatars No. 1:
Ethics and Behaviours – of robots and avatars in real world usage
Friday, October 5, 2012, 6–8 pm

Introduction and moderation: Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space)
Artists’ input to a specific question about ethics and behaviours in relationship to their work in the exhibition and how they see this relating to the “real world” evolving around us: Mey Lean Kronnermann, Michael Takeo Magruder, Niki Passath, Martin Hans Schmitt, Martin Bricelj Baraga
Experts overview/comments: Jože Slaček, Istvan Szakats, Peter Tomaž Dobrila
Venue: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia

Debate Robots and Avatars No. 2:
Artificial Intelligence – evolutions in robotics and virtual worlds
Saturday, October 6, 2012, 7–9 pm

Introduction and moderation: Ghislaine Boddington (body>data>space)
Context set-up/ present situation on AI/slide show: Noel Sharkey, Professor of AI and Robotics at the University of Sheffield.
Artists’ inputs on AI in relationship to their work in the exhibition; how they see this relating to the “real world” evolving around us and where will AI be in these worlds of representation 10 years from now: Louis Philippe Demers, Drew Baker, Marco Donnarumma, Ruairi Glyn
Experts: Istvan Szakats, Peter Tomaž Dobrila, Cameron Bobro, Denis Savkić
Venue: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Ulica kneza Koclja 9, entrance from Svetozarevska street, Maribor, Slovenia