Black Box is a hybrid robotised object that uses for its work data recorded during the “act of love”. When the robot was being created, a portable system was developed with “sensors” used during the “process” and a “home porno” video was also recorded, subsequently transferred to a super-low resolution (4x4 pixels). Then this information served as the grounds for the control algorithm of the robotic device.

I was immediately prompted by several ideas to create this project. I was driven primarily by a desire to depict love in its most physical embodiment, while at the same time using this process to generate a new object, which is as close as possible to the direct and figurative meaning of the word “procreate”. Another thought was based on the desire to create an object embodying the inevitable desire of devices of the future vested with artificial intelligence to try and understand the nature of the entity that procreated them – human beings.

Black Box is a term used to designate a system, whose internal structures and operating principle are very complex, unknown or unimportant within the framework of this objective. The black box approach is a form of research of such systems when the reaction of the system as whole to a changing environment is studied, and not its structures and the interaction of component parts of the system. The black box approach was established in exact sciences (in cybernetics, и systems engineering and physics) in the 1920s-1940s and was subsequently adopted by other sciences (above all, behavioural psychology).


hard:

servo motors
dc motor
16 leds
1 channel sound system
arduino mega

soft:

max msp

Special for "Future Love" exhibition.

Commission by HEK, Basel, 2018