- Roboexotica
Roboexotica (sometimes spelled: "Roböxotica") is an annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build
cocktail robot s and discuss technologicalinnovation ,futurology andscience fiction .Roboexotica is also an ironic attempt to criticize techno-triumphalism and to dissect technological hypes.The festival is co-produced by Shifz and
monochrom , twoVienna -based art collectives, and supported by the 'Bureau for Philosophy' (of the Department of Philosophy,University of Vienna ).History
In 1999 Magnus Wurzer and Chris Veigl (Shifz) started to present cocktail robots at a small Viennese punk venue. In 2002 the group
monochrom (Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger etc.) teamed up with them and the small event became a big international festival presented at Vienna'sMuseumsquartier .tructure
The annual international festival consists of an exhibition, a conference, social events, and the ACRA (Annual Cocktail Robot Award).
The festival is usually held at the end of November.
The exhibition presents
robot s that can mix cocktails, server cocktails, consume cocktails, have bar conversations, light or smokecigarette s or manage to impress the jury with (Quote Roboexotica website) "other achievements in the sector of cocktail culture".Media
Roboexotica has been featured on
Slashdot ,Wired News ,Reuters ,CNN andblog s likeBoing Boing ,Geek Entertainment TV andNew Scientist .Additional info
Roboexotica was presented at Cyberpipe (
Ljubljana ) in 2006, atMaker Faire (San Francisco ) andRoboGames (San Francisco ) in 2007.The 10th annual Roboexotica will take place in Nov 2008 in Vienna.
A smaller show called "Roboexotica USA" was held in San Francisco in May 2008. It was organized by
monochrom andShifz and was well-received by the press.External links
* [http://www.roboexotica.org/ Roboexotica]
* [http://www.wired.com/culture/culturereviews/multimedia/2007/11/gallery_roboexotica Photo story on Wired Online]
* [http://www.reuters.com/news/video?videoId=1133 Reuters video]* [http://www.boingboing.net/2007/11/21/speaking-in-vienna-t.html Cory Doctorow reports about Roboexotica conference on Boing Boing]
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