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# Can robots be viable sources of art?
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/can-robots-be-viable-sources-of-art/
- Published: 2011-12-13T15:05:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:28:43.000Z
- Description: From cave paintings to modern pieces occupying galleries today, art has been widely deemed a human creation. But as robots continue to accomplish human behaviors, it comes as no surprise that designers in Japan have come up with the “Senseless Drawing Bot,” a system of two pendulums on an electric s
- Author: Kill Screen Staff
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

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From cave paintings to modern pieces occupying galleries today, art has been widely deemed a human creation. But as robots continue to accomplish human behaviors, it comes as no surprise that designers in Japan have come up with the “[Senseless Drawing Bot](http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665505/meet-the-jackson-pollock-of-the-robot-art-world?ref=killscreen.com#6),” a system of two pendulums on an electric skateboard that arbitrarily sprays paint onto a given surface. Designers So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi have constructed a device that surpasses the binary, predictable nature of input/output machines and have instead created something that produces art semi-chaotically. This is not your average spray paint machine, folks.

Although the bot uses a program called Arduino to create algorithms for movement, the creators say that the double pendulum ensures a distinct outcome every time. The results look like nonsense street art, with endless loops and waves of color.

Would Kandinsky or Pollock approve? The case for robots in art is a gray area, but for now we just think it’s pretty cool.

*– Lyndsey Edelman*

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