MARIBOR, SLOVENIA
SLOVENJ GRADEC, SLOVENIA
NOVEMBER 14−DECEMBER 15, 2012

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OPENING – Portal, Valvazorjeva 40, Maribor, Slovenia
November 15, 2012

Part II: Top-Down

Opening day: Thursday, November 15 at 7 pm
Portal – Valvazorjeva 40, Maribor, Slovenia
6 pm Special guided tour of the exhibition (Curator Dmitry Bulatov will guide you through the exhibition)
7 pm AI robots performance The Tiller girls by Louis-Philippe Demers (SG), Phillip Schulze (DE) and Armin Purkrabek (DE)
8 pm Opening

OPENING PERFORMANCE

Thursday, November 15, 2012
Location: Valvazorjeva 40, Maribor, Slovenia
time: 7 pm

Louis-Philippe Demers (SG). The Tiller Girls
AI robots performance, 2010
Music: Phillip Schulze. Lighting: Armin Purkrabek

Demers’s performance is a group of 12 small autonomous robots. These robots were developed in Artificial Intelligence for the study of gaits given minimal freedom of movements. The rationale behind the Tiller Girls is to explore the dichotomy of the man-machine. The robots can only balance their torsos and shoulders but they can yet achieve a large variety of expressions and behaviours.

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