Exhibition

The Robots and Avatars Exhibition presents KIBLA, Maribor (Slovenia) from 5 to 30 October 2012 as part of Maribor 2012: European Capital of Culture.

Robots and Avatars – our colleagues and playmates of the future.

Join us in a near future where robots, avatars and telepresence form part of an exciting new reality.

  Robots and Avatars is a programme of work which began in 2009. It was originally conceived and produced by body>data>space who led the project through research and development into an EU Culture project involving 5 other UK and European partners. The exhibition in KIBLA presents immersive experiences – from physical limbs rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to wearable and interactive technologies that guide and confound, including 3 Commissions developed in collaboration with the National Theatre:

Michael Takeo Magruder and associates (UK, US)/ Visions of our Communal Dreams

Louis Philippe Demers /Processing Plant (CA, DE): The Blind Robot

Ruairi Glynn / Motive Colloquies (UK): Sociable Asymmetry

The exhibition presents a variety of immersive experiences – from unconventional approaches to social networks, re-defining and exploring their influences and dead ends, through virtual worlds rendered into pixels through the act of touch, collaborative landscapes stretching beyond the confines of popular gaming, to electro-acoustic biological extensions, wearable technologies and interactive robotic elements that affect and try to define us, to seemingly ordinary, human behavior imitating robots. Alongside the presented artworks,the Exhibition will include a series of workshops run by Artists, events and debates.   Read more on their dedicated website: http://kiblix.org/kiblix2012/ra/ Exhibiting artists and works in KIBLA:

The Blind Robot Louis Philippe Demers / Processing Plant Canada / Germany		Music for Flesh II Marco Donnarumma United Kingdom
Sociable Asymmetry Ruairi Glynn / Motive Colloquies United Kingdom		Public Avatar Martin Bricelj Baraga, Slavko Glamoanin / MoTA Slovenia
Visions of our Communal Dreams Michael Takeo Magruder, Drew Baker, Erik Fleming, David Steele United Kingdom		RoboVox Martin Bricelj Baraga Slovenia
ZOE Niki Passath Austria		Naked on Pluto Aymeric Mansoux, Dave Griffiths, Marloes de Valk France / United Kingdom / Netherlands
lumiBots Mey Lean Kronemann German		The Electronic Man Salvatore Iaconesi, Oriana Persico / Art is Open Source Italy
Beggar 1.0 Sašo Sedla?ek Slovenia		rep.licants.org Matthieu Cherubini Switzerland
NAVI Andre Almeida, Gonçalo Lopes, Francisco Dias, Guilherme Martins Portugal		Robot World Martin Hans Schmitt Germany

The exhibition is part of the RACIF project, coordinated by lead organiser body>data>space, London (UK) and co-organisers KIBLA, Maribor, Slovenia and AltArt, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. The project is supported by the Culture Programme of the European Union. The Slovenian version is financially supported by the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia and co-produced with Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture.