Rethinking Robotics Through Contemporary Art: An Atlas
Edited by Samuel Bianchini, Emanuele Quinz, Rahma Khazam. Text by Lorraine Daston, Graham Harman, Katherine N. Hayles, Cecilia Laschi, Rebecca Lemov, Andrew Pickering, Skylar Tibbits.
Uncanny and profoundly unsettling, contemporary artworks with autonomous functions become less of an object and more of a subject
This book considers certain contemporary artworks as "behavioral objects"—artworks with the capacity to act and react that exhibit autonomous behavior, thus expressing a personality of their own. It includes examples by contemporary artists such as Jeppe Hein, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Philippe Parreno.
STATUS: Forthcoming | 3/31/2026
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Behavioral Objects, Behavioral Matter Rethinking Robotics Through Contemporary Art: An Atlas
Published by Spector Books. Edited by Samuel Bianchini, Emanuele Quinz, Rahma Khazam. Text by Lorraine Daston, Graham Harman, Katherine N. Hayles, Cecilia Laschi, Rebecca Lemov, Andrew Pickering, Skylar Tibbits.
Uncanny and profoundly unsettling, contemporary artworks with autonomous functions become less of an object and more of a subject
This book considers certain contemporary artworks as "behavioral objects"—artworks with the capacity to act and react that exhibit autonomous behavior, thus expressing a personality of their own. It includes examples by contemporary artists such as Jeppe Hein, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Philippe Parreno.
