DORKBOT VIENNA #7 / Walter Langelaar May 3, 2009

Walter Langelaar, Artist-In-Residence of 5uper.net/MuseumsQuartier Vienna (Austria) is talking about his Project "nOtbOt" on the Vienna Dorkbot. Walter Langelaar is part of the Festival CODED CULTURES - Exploring Creative Emergences which is taking place in Vienna, Austria 27.May-31.May 2009 and in Tokyo,Yokohama/Japan 14.Oct.-18.Oct. 2009.

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.« (from: Gameworld exhibition catalogue)

http://kalender.esel.at/view.php?id=28489&date=20090503&user=_NUC_Nerz
http://5uper.net/post/167
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotvienna/
http://codedcultures.com/category/people/category/exhibition/#notbot

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