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Enacting the Soft Automaton: Empirical Ontologies of Two Soft Robots from Technical Research and Media Art

Author(s) -

Jonas Jørgensen

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

electronic workshops in computing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

ISSN - 1477-9358

DOI - 10.14236/ewic/evac18.23

Subject(s) - robot , autonomy , computer science , automaton , empirical research , human–computer interaction , politics , artificial intelligence , epistemology , political science , philosophy , law

This paper examines two soft robots from technical research and media art respectively and the practices through which they come into being. Departing from a juxtaposition of video presentations of the two robots, the empirical ontologies of a soft robot enacted in practice are analysed. The paper argues that two different versions of softness are being done and that the two sets of practices concomitantly respecify “knowledge” and “autonomy” as concepts, with different ethical and political implications.

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