AD61600 Robots, Art and Culture
Prof. Fabian Winkler

1. Introduction to Robotics and the Arts

Reichardt, Jasia. Robots - Fact, Fiction, Prediction. New York: The Viking Press, 1978.
"A Partial History", pp. 8-16
"Definitions", pp. 28-31

Kac, Eduardo: "Origin and Development of Robotic Art". Originally appeared in Art Journal, Vol. 56, N. 3, Digital Reflections: The Dialogue of Art and Technology, Special issue on Electronic Art, Johanna Drucker, (ed.), CAA, NY, 1997, pp. 60-67.

Huhtamo, Erkki and Machiko Kusahara. "Robo Renga: or a Tele-discussion about Art and Robotics" in Convergence; The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies Volume 8, Number 3, Autumn 2002.

Moravec, Hans: "Robotics" in Encyclopædia Britannica, July 2003.
http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/robot.papers/2003/robotics.eb.2003.html (accessed January 6, 2018)

2. Embodiment and Human/Machine Hybrids

Wood, Gaby.Living Dolls. London: Faber & Faber, 2002.
"Introduction/The Blood of an Android", pp. xiiv - 54

Penny, Simon. "The Virtualization of Art Practice: Body Knowledge and the Engineering Worldview." Art Journal 56, no.3 (1997): 30-38.

Gonzáles, Jennifer. "Envisioning Cyborg Bodies - Notes from Current Research." In The Cyborg Handbook, edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Hogle, Linda F. "Tales from the Cryptic - Technology Meets Organism in the Living Cadaver." In The Cyborg Handbook, edited by Chris Hables Gray, Heidi J. Figueroa-Sarriera and Steven Mentor. New York: Routledge, 1995.

Dickel, Sascha. "Higher Faster Further." Form, Jul./Aug. 2016 https://form.de/en/magazine/form266/focus (accessed January 6, 2018)

3. Robots and Gender, Love and Sex

Choi, Charles Q. "Not Tonight, Dear, I Have to Reboot." Scientific American. March 1, 2008 https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/not-tonight-dear-i-have-to-reboot/ (accessed January 6, 2018) and "Humans Marrying Robots? A Q&A with David Levy" Scientific American. February 19, 2008. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-marrying-robots/ (accessed January 6, 2018).

Richardson, Kathleen. "The Asymmetrical 'Relationship': Parallels Between Prostitution and the Development of Sex Robots." campaignagainstsexrobots.org. https://campaignagainstsexrobots.org/the-asymmetrical-relationship-parallels-between-prostitution-and-the-development-of-sex-robots/ (accessed January 6, 2018).

Mar, Alex. "Love in the Time of Robots." Wired. October 17, 2017. https://www.wired.com/2017/10/hiroshi-ishiguro-when-robots-act-just-like-humans/ (accessed January 6, 2018).

4. Robot Culture: Asia and the West

Schodt, Frederick L. Inside the Robot Kingdom - Japan, Mechatronics, and the Coming Robotopia. Tokyo and New York: Kodansha International, 1988.
"Religion and Robots", pp. 195-212

Reichardt, Jasia. Robots - Fact, Fiction, Prediction. New York: The Viking Press, 1978.
"Human Reactions To Imitation Humans, or Masahiro Mori's Uncanny Valley", pp. 26/27

5. Robot Ethics

Robots/Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. 2009. Robot Ethics (Part 1: Noel Sharkey). Podcast internet program. Lausanne, Switzerland, 13 February 2009. http://robohub.org/robots-robot-ethics-part-1/ (accessed January 6, 2018) and Robot Ethics (Part 2: Ronald Arkin). Podcast internet program. Lausanne, Switzerland, 27 February 2009. http://robohub.org/robots-robot-ethics-part-2/ (accessed January 6, 2018).

Gips, James. "Toward the Ethical Robot". In Android Epistemology, edited by Kenneth M. Ford, Clark Glymour and Patrick J. Hayes, 243 - 252. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.