Because we lack, we present LaughingSquid’s quick post on RoboExotica, partly because I personally am despondent that I am no there, and partially because I am a paradoxically extremely busy lazy fuck this morning (Afternoon? Whatever).

Roboexotica 2008, the 10th annual festival for cocktail robots organized by SHIFZ, monochrom and Bureau of Philosophy, kicks of this Thursday, December 4th at Freiraum in Vienna’s Museumsquartier and runs through December 14th.

Here’s a gallery of photos and video from previous Roboexotica events.

Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

The Rotor is there with Chassis (background) and collaborator Al Honig:

Zwei Groβes Bier shout-outs to Magnus, Kal Spelletich, Bre Pettis, Johannes G, Gunter, Evelyn, Tina and everyone else! Mister Robotics and I are sitting here having itchy-vein junkie fits because we’re not there, but hey turnabout is fair play I guess. . .

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