Robot Spectacle
| Main Author: | Kristian Hoeck |
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| Format: | info Video Journal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
| Terbitan: |
, 2021
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| Online Access: |
https://zenodo.org/record/5578140 |
Daftar Isi:
- This film accompanies my written dissertation in Social Anthropology with Visual Media at the University of Manchester. The film portrays the robotics environment around professor Hiroshi Ishiguro and his two laboratories in the Kansai region of Japan. Throughout the film we are introduced to the many lifelike and at times unnerving robots of the laboratory, to professor Ishiguro's grand visions for the future and to the community of passionate roboticists engaged in the making of technological social life. As a companion piece to the written dissertation, the film reveals my positionality as a researcher through the people I engage with and the focus of my camera’s eye. In the film there are many overlaps between scenes and narrative descriptions that also figure in my writing. While I have not edited this film analytically in the strict sense of the word, I have been guided by the main themes of the written dissertation. The film allows me to give space and affective resonance to these themes which are here portrayed in a different way to that captured in my writing. The key themes that have guided this process are Professor Ishiguro’s charismatic presence, the caring process of ibuki’s making, the confusing and troubled gender perspectives, and the affective ambivalence of the robot presence. Juxtaposed, I hope that these scenes illustrate the vibrancy of this field, the roboticists’ animated investment in their work, and the robots’ powerful material presence that make up the force which I in my writing have called robotic desire.