CHARON: The Self and the Technological-Other

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Artist: Sterling Crispin
Url: https://twitter.com/sterlingcrispin/status/1097664649909026816
Url: http://www.sterlingcrispin.com/Sterling_Crispin_MFA_Thesis.pdf
Url: http://animalnewyork.com/2014/artists-notebook-sterling-crispin/
Url: http://www.sterlingcrispin.com/charon.html

Description

From Sterling's Twitter:

Sterling Crispin's MFA thesis, CHARON: The Self and the Technological-Other, an improvised performance and sculpture with an autonomous quadrocopter in a CAVE VR environment using motion capture.

Charon is an interactive installation and sculpture intended to physically embody the tension between humans, robotic autonomous agents, and the virtual models which these agents rely on to understand the world.

A sculpture was created from the flightpath of an autonomous quadrocopter in pursuit of a human within a motion tracking lab. Both physical and virtual forces exerted their influence on the drone, creating a two-way boundary crossing between the internal world-model of the drone and its external physical surroundings. Thus, these sculptural forms can be considered as the shadow of this boundary crossing, fueled by the complex exchange between a sentient human and a robotic proto-lifeform.

The drone wirelessly receives its vision and thoughts from an array of cameras and computers, which are an extension of its being. The transLAB when considered as whole a system is akin a living creature’s biological functions.

"This first image is from the performance and capturing of the flight path data while the drone danced and attacked me, the second is the raw data, the third is a processed version before 3D printing and the final is a 3D print in resin on a TV screen