Posters From The Big Screen: From Sci-Fi To Reality: Hiroshi Ishiguro & Oriza Hirata (JP): Androids

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 4: "From Sci-Fi to reality" (Present Time)
Karel Čapek's robots are slowly being realized. Even though that the androids of Hiroshi Ishiguro not are based on biology but mechanic, then they're very much human-like. In 2005 after having build robot for years he first made a robotic clon of his daughter, then his wife, and then finally a twin brother of the inventor called a geminoid (shorten for gemini and android).

While the French philosopher Rene Descartes operated with the dualistic notions "res cogitans" and "res extensa", where the pineal gland worked as a threshold which connected "consciousness" and "body", then Čapek's robots were only "res extensa", a mechanical body, without any emotions and consciousness, in the beginning of the play. Later on, when the robots achieved "res cogitans", they became dangerous and killed all man on Earth except for one.

Dangerous are also the androids, or replicants, and the Blade Runner Rick Deckard, played by Harrison Ford, who are assassinating them in Ridley Scott's legendary movie from 1982. When he tracks the replicants, and eliminating them one by one, he soon comes across another replicant, Rachel, who evokes human emotion, despite the fact that she's a mechanical replicant herself.

The movie, which links to Rene Descartes and R.U.R. asks what is a human and what is not a human, and what are the consequences of artificial intelligence.

Now a days robotics researchers also thinks in a dualistic way when they're creating the robots. The notions are now hardware or software, or, embodiment or artificial intelligence. And what connects them can ex. be wireless technologies, the internet, or cables and cd's through a PC port or a player.

Even though Ishiguro's androids, which example have been portrayed in the award-winning Tv-series "Through the Wormhole" hosted by Morgan Freeman, are getting much human-like, it is still a long way for him and his crew to make mechanical creatures that acts realistic. While many other researchers in the field of A.I. opens for a new understanding of "res cogitans", because they imagine that many different actors all around the World though the Cloud can design the emotions and consciousness or the robots in a common network solution, then Ishiguro are sceptical about these thoughts because of the speed of the data transmissions to the robots.

There is no doubt about that the concept of robots have fascinated humans for ages. Sci-Fi robots are often by the industry seen as dangerous because they give a false image on how the reality on robotics really is. However, on the other hand many roboticists claims that the reason why they got interested in this field was because on the Sci-Fi robots.

This leads to the final questions: Is there a serious reason to be afraid of robots, or not? Or is this concept more connected to the minds of humans than to reality? This is something we will be more aware of in the Future.

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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