Posters From The Big Screen: From Sci-Fi To Reality: Fred Barton (US): Dewie, Huey & Lewie, Gort, Robbie the Robot

Vive Les Robots! curated the exhibition "Posters From The Big Screen: From Sci-Fi To Reality at the American Center of the US Embassy in Prague.

ARTISTS: HELICON ARTS COOPERATIVE (US), ROBOTIC EWE (UK), FRED BARTON (US), PAULINE BAILLON (FR), ORLANDO AROCENA (US), ANDY FAIRHURST (UK), JOE VETOE (US), MATT FERGUSON (UK), DANIEL NASH (UK), HIROSHI ISHIGURO (JP), ORIZA HIRATA (JP).

"Posters from the Big Screen: From Sci-Fi to Reality" will introduce you to robots from literature, movies, and from real life, told in photos and posters, starting with the artificial bio androids of "R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots)" by Czech Author Karel Čapek from 1920, over American film robots from the 1950s to now a days, ending with some examples of the artificial mechanical androids which are created in present time by Hiroshi Ishiguro Lab in Japan.

The exhibition seeks to ask the audience: Why is it, that we at the same time, on one hand both can fear and be sceptical concerning robots, but on the other hand also are getting curious and fascinated by them.

PART 2: Robots and Space (1945-1980)
In the 1950s in the beginning of the Cold War, and at the time when the Space Race between USA and the Soviet Union started, robots were used as images to describe this development of the society. The new power station of film robots became Hollywood.

Famous robots in the first period of the Cold War were the giant Golem-like robot "Gort" from the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) and the iconic "Robby the Robot", which first appeared in "Forbidden Planet" (1956). While Gort was a dangerous alien robot, designed to scare the entire human population, then was Robby the Robot a friendly robot, which followed The Three Laws of Robotics. Together with the Japanese manga character Astro Boy (1952) it was one of the first robots which changed our view on them, from being rebellious or hazardous artificial workers, to become good servants and companions for humans.

This new patterns in our understanding of robots are also portrayed in the robots "Dewie, Huey and Lewie" from "Silent Running" and especially in "R2-D2" & "C-3PO" of "Star Wars", where the robots are becoming more human-like in their expressions. But still the main context of the robot narratives are taking place in the Outer Space, where the good ones are fighting against the bad ones.

Read more about Vive Les Robots! here:
vivelesrobots-education.dk/om-os

Read more about Cafe Neu Romance here:
cafe-neu-romance.com/

Taken in: Česká republika / Hlavní město Praha / Praha / Josefov (show map)

Taken on: May 28, 2016

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