Cipo_08 : Cybernetic Intelligent Parasitic Object

Abstract

The CIPO artwork program are interactive action based installations, that investigate through robot agents, the relationship between subjects, body and space. The interminglements of spectators within the digital framework turn the space into an experimental place. The CIPO program involves the live energy of the human presence, performer; it agitates the spectators to perform in an active relation with subjects and objects in place. Cipo_08 was conceived through a reading on the non-official urban equipment, the temporary architecture coming from the movable/ vehicle and the everyday street life. It is an autonomous robotic vehicle that is driven by the human body; as a guide on a "derive" in urban areas. An alternative way of thinking about mobile bodies is to think of them as moving with the aid of a number of prosthetic devices. Cipo_08 archives the experiences from the walking act, as a material which is conceived as fluid information; from the potential of mobility through a network, as a mapping system that is crossing over territories. Different plotting graphics are created by cipo_08 through its passing, material that is transcribed from random background noises in the city. Cipo_08 , an uncanny and unusual existence, just like the cyborg, pays attention to the otherness (refugee), and is immune with racism and the traditional power-relations. It crosses the borders, in nomadic shifts and paths of deterritorialization.