Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler
"Exhibition of student artifacts created for Dawn or Doom 2 "
September 21 – 28, 2015
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.
Bio: Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler collaboratively engage issues in contemporary culture through aesthetic strategies at the intersection of art, technology and social inquiry. As interdisciplinary artists and cultural analysts, they combine their backgrounds in new media art and sociology to produce speculative social spaces and time-based installations. Winkler is Associate Professor of Visual and Performing Arts. McMullen is Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts and American Studies.