http://kenrinaldo.com/
Ken Rinaldo
http://www.paparazzibot.com/
Another interesting piece by Ken Rinaldo is paparazzi robot, a multimedia exhibit. The robot stands at face level with people and has cameras all around its body, it then takes pictures of only certain individuals faces based on wheter or not they are smilling at the camera or noticeably frowning towards the camera. This piece of art is a statement about Paparazii and how the modern world is overly obsessed with certain people for their traits, this robot knows no boundries and treats certain people as celebrities taking pictures of them.
I think that the paparazii robot is genuius because it not only plays on the strings of modern technology interfering with out everyday existence it is also unpredictable and that behavior is worth replicating if it can appear to be random when in fact there is certain criteria the robot must meet to snap a picture of a smilling person or a frowning person.
I hope to see ideas like this one improved upon in the future with technology getting smaller like cameras and sensors will enable us to make further pieces of art, maybe one day we will be able to make it for flying drones for actual pappaarazi to use.
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