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RoboVox Soundbook, June 2008
RoboVox soundtrack is a unique collaboration of slovenian and international sound artists that shape the sound design of the public space where RoboVox appears.
Artists included in the compilation are Plaid, Vector Lovers, Random Logic, Menu B, Octex, DJ Borka, User Name and others.
Together with the soundtrack comes a book with research texts written by acknowledged researchers on intriguing questions concerning the project:
Historical development of robotic design, robotic imagination and the appearence of robots in different media, especially literature. A special focus is made on Eastern europe- the Slavic origins of robotics and the importance and symbolical usage of public momuments in the countries behind the iron curtain. Furthermore, the problems of public- civil appropriation and corporate colonization of public space are discussed.
Socio- cultural topics include the media and methods of free speech, the ambivalent relationship between machines and men and the power of the crowd and of the network in public manifestations and virtual communities. RoboVox research book is a compilation of texts from: Alexei Monroe, Lucie Hernandez, Mitar Milutinovič, Jan Kušej, Jana Horakova, Minhea Mircan and Martin Bricelj.
Artists included in the compilation are Plaid, Vector Lovers, Random Logic, Menu B, Octex, DJ Borka, User Name and others.
Together with the soundtrack comes a book with research texts written by acknowledged researchers on intriguing questions concerning the project:
Historical development of robotic design, robotic imagination and the appearence of robots in different media, especially literature. A special focus is made on Eastern europe- the Slavic origins of robotics and the importance and symbolical usage of public momuments in the countries behind the iron curtain. Furthermore, the problems of public- civil appropriation and corporate colonization of public space are discussed.
Socio- cultural topics include the media and methods of free speech, the ambivalent relationship between machines and men and the power of the crowd and of the network in public manifestations and virtual communities. RoboVox research book is a compilation of texts from: Alexei Monroe, Lucie Hernandez, Mitar Milutinovič, Jan Kušej, Jana Horakova, Minhea Mircan and Martin Bricelj.