{"id":46,"date":"2009-07-15T07:22:01","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T14:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/the-senster\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:57:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:57:58","slug":"the-senster-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/the-senster-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Senster"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-46-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wY85GrYGnyw&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wY85GrYGnyw\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wY85GrYGnyw<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>The Senster, commissioned by Philips,          for their permanent showplace, the Evoluon,          in Eindhoven. In addition to responding to people&#8217;s          voices, the Senster also responded to their movements, which it detected using a radar, and was probably the first robotic sculpture          to be controlled by a computer. It was unveiled in 1970 and remained on          permanent show until 1974 when it was dismantled.<\/p>\n<p>Its size &#8211; it was over 15 feet (4 m) long and could reach as high into          the air &#8211; made the use of aluminium castings inappropriate, so it was          welded out of steel tubing, with the castings employed only in the more          intricate microphone positioning mechanism. The microphones would locate the direction of          any predominant sound and home in on it, and the rest of the structure would follow          them in stages if the sound persisted. Sudden movements or loud noises          would make it shy away. The complicated acoustics of the hall and the          completely unpredictable behaviour of the public made the Senster&#8217;s movements          seem a lot more sophisticated than they actually were. It soon became          obvious that it was that behaviour and not anything in its appearance          which was responsble for the impact which the Senster undoubtedly had          on the audience.<sup>[1]<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>[1] http:\/\/www.senster.com\/ihnatowicz\/senster\/index.htm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"template":"","artist":[38],"streams":[14],"keywords":[2119,2120],"decade":[5540],"media":[5548,5546],"class_list":["post-46","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","hentry","artist-edward-ihnatowicz","streams-bodies-surrogates-emergent-systems","keywords-cybernetic-sculpture","keywords-robot","decade-1960s","media-text","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artwork"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}