A movement so far ahead, they might be accused of regressing.

Rossum’s is a collective of robotics artists in Pennsylvania.

Rossum’s is a working group for robotic artists founded on the practical goal of helping each other develop ideas and skills. Out of this pragmatic aim are emerging ideas about embodiment, movement, and the role of technology.

Art has always been embodied. But in the heady rush to the virtual, in the novelty of purely informational digital art, and our own cultural movement toward anapresence, an essential connection to the groundedness of physical reality has been lost. We long for digital artworks to regain the vitality of physical form.

These are clearly people who who are beyond thinking digital watches are a good idea.

The show has closed but the idea lives on:

From the Three Rivers Arts Festival Website:

Dates: February 23 - March 23, 2007
Opening Reception: February 23, 5:30-8:00pm

Mechanosphere is a response to a technology art culture, which has embraced the virtuality of informational digital art. The work explores sculpture with a behavioral essence, bringing the digital back to a vital physical reality. Some of the work creates a certain gesture or behavior, some seeks to find its own way towards how it will exist in the world, some are experiments which aspire toward truly thinking machines.

Mechanosphere includes work by Stuart Anderson, Takehito Etani, Doug Fritz, Amisha Gadani, Joseph Hays, Ian Ingram, Michael Kontopoulos, Shaun Slifer, Gregory Witt, and Garth Zeglin.

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