Panel Statement 

Panel: Three-space

Our work is about displacement of existing artifacts and expected life-like behaviors. The robots can be seen as virtual organisms that move and produce sound and light as the outcome of their invented metabolisms. One of the aesthetic choices of this work being the evocation of life through abstract inorganic skeletons, the machines are deliberately simplistic. Our goal is not to simulate or physically reproduce real-life animals; but rather, to deal with the multiplicity of primitive mechanical animats.

• Bill Vorn, Canada Born in Montreal in 1959, Bill Vorn is now making music with noise using computers and digital processing. He is also working on a Communication Ph.D. thesis at University du Quebec a Montreal .
• Louis Philippe Demers, Canada. Born in Montreal in 1959, he is a lighting designer, software engineer and independent electronic artist. His main works are audio-visual robotic installations and interactive performances. He completed one year of doctoral studies in robotics (McGill) and was artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre (Media Arts).