By Lina Bautista and Julia Mรบgica
Installation
Collaborators: Ivรกn Paz and Andrรฉs Costa.
Eufรณnic Urbรก Festival, Arts Santa Mรฒnica, Barcelona.
January 2021
Description:
The “Kilobots” installation aims to explore the dynamics of algorithmic behavior within a collective organism and to look up close to the phenomenon of swarm intelligence. The exhibit showcases a swarm of diminutive Arduino-powered robots, which execute simple actions from which complex behaviors can emerge. Resembling schools of fish, flocks of birds, and more so, a swarm of insects, the installation prompts questions: Why do they avoid collisions? How do they navigate their surroundings? Who orchestrates their movements? How do they achieve coordinated behavior? The Kilobots, integral to this installation, are open-source small robots designed at Harvard in 2012.
Web: https://artssantamonica.gencat.cat/ca/detall/Kilobots
With the support of:
Research and Experimentation Grant from Hangar, the Center for Visual Arts Production and Research. This grant has afforded Lina Bautista the opportunity of a residency at Hangar’s Interaction Lab. The culmination of her innovative work will take the form of an artistic installation, as part of the Eufรฒnic Urbรก festival.
Photo credits: Lina Bautista