{"id":97,"date":"2009-07-17T02:37:23","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T09:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/petit-mal-computer-controlled-interactive-robot\/"},"modified":"2021-01-01T23:36:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T07:36:49","slug":"petit-mal-computer-controlled-interactive-robot-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/petit-mal-computer-controlled-interactive-robot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Petit Mal\/Computer-controlled interactive robot"},"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-97-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBkm9mUkRMM&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBkm9mUkRMM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aBkm9mUkRMM<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/98745285_4b0ad5442c.jpg\" alt=\"Robot\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" \/> [1]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In &#8216;Petit Mal&#8217; the media artist Simon Penny has created an interactive robot that doesn&#8217;t have a useful function per se. This charming machine appears to be the diametric opposite of a hi-tech robot: it moves around light-footedly on the two wheels of a bicycle. Penny is interested in the emotional aspects of our relationship with machines, and in the cultural effects of research and development in the field of &#8216;artificial life&#8217;. &#8216;Petit mal&#8217; is a term borrowed from neuropsychology, and stands for a momentary loss of control. In a subtle way, this criticises the control paradigm and social application of computer technology, in that visitors to the exhibition are confronted with an elaborate machine entity that appears, like a young animal, to desire nothing more than harmless and playful contact. Petit Mal was conceived in 1989. Building and development occurred 1992-95. The robot was damaged during exhibition in Sheffield in 1998. In summer 2005 work began on resurrecting it for transmediale 2006.&#8221;[2]<\/p>\n<p>[1] http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/38\/98745285_4b0ad5442c.jpg?v=0<\/p>\n<p>[2] http:\/\/www.anontodo.com\/videos\/view.php?id=aBkm9mUkRMM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":7863,"template":"","artist":[84],"streams":[14],"keywords":[2120],"decade":[5542],"media":[5547,5546],"class_list":["post-97","artwork","type-artwork","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","artist-simon-penny","streams-bodies-surrogates-emergent-systems","keywords-robot","decade-1980s","media-image","media-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/97","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\/12"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7870,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artwork\/97\/revisions\/7870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"streams","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/streams?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/keywords?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/decade?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"media","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}