cybernetic
artists-researchers

This is a completely subjective, personal, incomplete, unfair list of mostly artists working with bots & artificial creatures, as well as some researchers. Sometimes only for one work, sometimes an entire oeuvre. The sample works or projects are just, well, examples. 

We just started the list so it is work in progress. For other great resources see interesting links. Tips welcome.

The list: 

• Fred Abels, Dirk (homeless robot)

• Zach Blas, im here to learn so :))))))

• Valentin Braitenberg, Vehicles: Experiment in Synthetic Psychology

• Cynthia Breazeal, Kismet

• Louis-Philippe Demers, The Blind Robot

• Edwin Dertien

• Stephanie Dinkins, Conversations with Bina48

• Bram Ellens, Robots in Captivity, The Mad King

• Arthur Elsenaar, Artifacial

• Edward Ihnatowicz, SAM, Senster

• Ian Ingram, The Woodiest, Pidgin Smidgen  

• Dragan Ilic, RoboAction(s) A1 K1 (video)

• Hiroshi Ishiguro,Geminoid HI-4/5/6

• Ismail Al-Jazari, The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices

• Norma Jeane, Shybot

• Casper de Jong, Casper de Jong Short Film Festival of Inanimate Beings, Pottenbakken Robot, Sharpener

• Stefan Kaegi, Uncanny Valley (with Rimini Protokoll

• Akira Kanayama, Work series

• Jip van Leeuwenstein, A diverse monoculture (moth-eating predator, article)

• Neil Mendoza, Spam Bots, House Party, The Tyranny of Birds, Tension  

• Leonard van Munster, The Dancing White Man

• Makoto Nishimura, Gakensoku

• Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Man a Machine

• L.A. Raeven, Vastum, Annelies, looking for completion

• Arcangelo Sassolino, Hunger

• Rob Saunders and Petra Gemeinboeck, projects: Machine Movement Lab, Accomplice

• Daniel Simu, Acrobot

• Nicolas Schöffer, CYSP-1

• Madeline Schwartzmann

• Jean Tinguely

• Takayuki Todo, Dynamics of a Dog on a Leash, SEER

• Patrick Tresset, Human Study, RNP-A

• Benoît Verjat, Voir des Choses Bouger

• Norman White, The Helpless Robot

• Jordan Wolfson

• Wonbing Yang, Species (thrash robots), Robot Feast (edible robots)

• yang02, Senseless Drawing Bot, Modern Spectator

• Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, Can't Help Myself