DORKBOT VIENNA #7: Walter Langelaar: nOtbOt Sunday, May 3, 2009 7 PM @ Metalab Vienna (Rathausstrasse 6, 1010 Vienna) -
May 3rd, 2009
Der von 5uper.net eingeladene Künstler Walter Langelaar präsentiert sein Projekt nOtbOt im Rahmen des Dorkbot Vienna.
nOtbOt is an automated game-player which is controlled and deranged by reactions to it’s own virtual environment, caught in a vicious
force-feedback loop…
The installation consists of a hacked up human-computer interface in which the feedback system, originally intended to provide tangible interaction for a human player, is now used as input data to control a ‘first-person’ videogame. Human interaction with the game/controller becomes obsolete, resulting in a completely erratic form of [art]ificial intelligence. The observer of the installation, however, can literally try to ‘get a grip’ on taking control of the system…
Walter Langelaar’s “nOtbOt” is a self-playing videogame; to be specific, it is a mechanized Logitech “Wingman Force” joystick that has its robotic maneuvers projected in real-time in front of it. In certain ways, Langelaar’s installation recalls the similarly automated works of Paul Johnson, but where Johnson’s games are vacuum-sealed, seen but not touched, “nOtbOt” allows viewers to actually grab hold of the controller. In the process of trying to, as Langelaar cleverly puts it, “get a grip” on the device, players confront their own metaphoric role in a feedback loop that no longer requires them—where the real object of obsolescence is not the technology, but the players themselves.< < (Gameworld exhibition catalogue)
Weblinks:
nOtbOt bei Coded Cultures
notbot.lowstandart.net
Dowkbot Vienna
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