PANKRAZ PIKTOGRAPH
I collaborated with Felix Figus on building a drawing robot – our master thesis. Inspired by historical drawing automatons like Maillardet’s Automaton and recent examples like Patrick Tresset’s Paul the Robot, we decided to build a robot that draws portraits of bystanders during events like science or trade fairs, in museums or even at private festivities.
Instead of providing visitors with regular photos as a souvenir like commercial selfie boxes / photo booths do, our robot makes the creation of the souvenir image an event in itself. Our machine is not a black box – it makes its inner workings understandable to the general audience and fascinates with the way it draws pictures.
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