The robodogs will be trained over four months by famous artist Agnieszka Pilat.
Famous artist Agnieszka Pilat is training three Boston Dynamics robot dogs to paint for the National Gallery of Victoria’s next exhibition. The robots will be trained over four months, according to aOne of the robot dogs, known as “Spot,” even lives with the artist in New York. She has named him Basia.The three robots will now paint by themselves using sticks of oil paint on an acrylic ground canvas attached to the wall for work in this year’s NGV Triennial, opening in Melbourne in December.
“I thought of it as a new celebrity, a new ruling class,” she said. “Portraits reflect power in society – Andy Warhol was painting celebrities, old portraiture reflected aristocracy. Now the power is going towards the machine, and it’s our obligation to really engage with it. It’s on us, their parents, to engage and train them to be good future citizens.”She describes the robot animals as “playful” and “partners of humanity.
“I am [a] techno-optimist – I like to say that I do for the machine what Diego Rivera did for the working class. And when people meet Spot in person, the vast majority fall in love very fast – it’s hard not to be charmed by them because they’re very cute,” she added. Last month, it was revealed that robotics researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and UC Berkeley in the U.S. were
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