Robots and Art

Part I. Prologue

1. Engineering the Arts
Damith Herath, Christian Kroos

2. The Art in the Machine
Christian Kroos

Part II. Then and Now

3. We Have Always Been Robots: The History of Robots and Art
Elizabeth Stephens, Tara Heffernan

4. Robotics and Art, Computationalism and Embodiment
Simon Penny

5. Robotics: Hephaestus Does It Again
Jean-Paul Laumond

Part III. Otherness

6. Embracing Interdependencies: Machines, Humans and Non-humans
Amy M. Youngs

7. Trans-Species Interfaces: A Manifesto for Symbiogenisis
Ken Rinaldo

8. Cultivating the Uncanny: The Telegarden and Other Oddities
Elizabeth Jochum, Ken Goldberg

9. The Potential of Otherness in Robotic Art
Eleanor Sandry

10. Being One, Being Many
Christian Kroos, Damith Herath

Part IV. Explorations

11. Way of the Jitterbug
Norman T. White

12. Still and Useless: The Ultimate Automaton
Nicolas Reeves, David St-Onge

13. Machines That Make Art
Leonel Moura

Part V. Embodiment

14. The Multiple Bodies of a Machine Performer
Louis-Philippe Demers

15. Bio-engineered Brains and Robotic Bodies: From Embodiment to Self-portraiture
Guy Ben-Ary, Gemma Ben-Ary

16. Android Robots as In-between Beings
Kohei Ogawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro

17. Into the Soft Machine
Chico MacMurtrie

Part VI. Interactions

18. I Want to Believe—Empathy and Catharsis in Robotic Art
Bill Vorn

19. Designing Robots Creatively
Mari Velonaki, David Rye

20. Robot Partner—Are Friends Electric?
Stefan Doepner, Urška Jurman

Part VII. Epilogue

21. Encounters, Anecdotes and Insights—Prosthetics, Robotics and Art
Stelarc

Keywords: Engineering, Computational Intelligence, Fine Arts, Control, Robotics, Mechatronics, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities