Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler

"Art exhibit "Discontinuities, Dreams and Diversions

Thursday, September 24

RUEFF GALLERY PAO HALL: 10 AM - 5:30 PM

Discontinuities, Dreams and Diversions features art and design work that critically investigates realities of technology in contemporary culture and provocatively asks questions about the possible futures they foreshadow. Are they desirable? Can they be changed? What are forms of participation?

The exhibition title suggests that technology and culture cannot be interpolated linearly into the future but that they are rather shaped by constant ruptures and complex interactions which are cleverly revealed in the work of the invited artists.

"Robot Futures Artifact Display"
Exhibition of student artifacts created for Dawn or Doom 2

September 21 – 28, 2015

STEWART WINDOW BOX AT FOWLER

Robot Futures is an exhibition of student work from the course AD41700 Robots, Art and Culture, taught collaboratively by Fabian Winkler (Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design / Electronic and Time-Based Art) and Dr. Justin Seipel (Assistant Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering).

The artifacts in this exhibition were created by an interdisciplinary group of students with backgrounds ranging from art and design to computer science and engineering fields in the first three weeks of the Fall 2015 semester. They are sketches that investigate critically the “risks and rewards” of emerging robotic technologies and speculate on future narratives and realities they foreshadow. Rather than providing concrete answers or solutions, Robot Futures invites viewers to see robotic technologies as important reflections of our own culture and ask questions about their future socio-technological impact.