Abstract

Keywords: Performance, Art, Robot, Artificial Intelligence, Machinic Life, Pickering, Johnston, Beuys

The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans and machines, a subject he explores with self-made machines. The paper describes the aims, method, and context of Biting Machine, a performance art experiment in human-robot interaction loosely based on Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) where the artist shared a space for several days with a wild coyote. Biting Machine will be delivered as series of durational performances for an autonomous mobile robot and a human, where the robot will take the role occupied by the coyote in Beuys’ piece.

• Paul Granjon, Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK

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