Former BB guest blogger Johannes Grenzfurthner and his co-conspirators at the
monochrom art/tech collective and
Shifz are hosting their annual Roboxotica cocktail robotics festival starting this weekend. This year's theme is Beautiful Failure:
"Until recently, no attempts were made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebensraum, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital...
Scientists, researchers, computer geeks and artists from all over the world participate to build cocktail robots and discuss about technological innovation, futurology and science fiction."
Roboxotica has been kind enough to host former BB guestblogger
Karen Marcelo of Survival Research Laboratories/DorkbotSF and Dorkbot founder
Douglas Repetto for the mechanical festivities.
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