Pinokio
2012

In collaboration with Shanshan Zhou

Pinokio is an exploration into the expressive and behavioural potentials of robotic computing. Customized computer code and electronic circuit design imbues Pinokio with the ability to be aware of its environment, especially people, and to expresses a dynamic range of behaviour. As it negotiates its world, we the human audience can see that pinokio shares many traits possessed by animals, generating a range of emotional sympathies.

Selected Press:
Creative Applications , Ars Technica, FastCo Design, Design Boom, Gizmodo, Daily Mail , Huffington Post, The Creators Project

Exhibited in: Bal Robotov, Artplay, Moscow (2014) / Digital Revolution (curated by Conrad Bodman, Sunny Cheung, Dani Admiss), Barbican Centre, London (2014), Tekniska museet, Stockholm (2015), Onassis Stegi, Athens (2016), Zorlu PSM, Istanbul (2016) / Robotronica (curated by Jonathan Parsons), Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane (2015) / Humans Need Not Apply (curated by William Myers, Damien Henry, Amber Case), Science Gallery, Dublin (2017) / Design Week Turkey, Lütfi Kirdar Center, Istanbul (2017)

Featured on: El Hormiguero with special guests Jennifer Lawrence & Chris Pratt, Antena 3, Madrid (2016)

Thank you:
Douglas Easterly, Walter Langerlaar, STUDiO, LoM , VUW SOAD
Music: Do You See Me by Jared C. Balogh