TRASH ROBOTS

Naslov / Title: Trash robots

Lokacija / Exhibition space: Umestnostna galerija Maribor – razstavni salon Rotovž

Datum / Date: 29. September –06. November 2011

Produkcija / Production: Zavod za sodobne umetnosti in kulture Gulag

So-produkcija / co-production: Mladinski kulturni center Maribor – Kulturni inkubator in UGM

Spremno besedilo / Text: Jože Slaček, Meta Kordiš

Foto / Photo: Boštjan Kavčič

Pomoč in svetovanje / Support: Sandra Birjukov, Marjetka Valjavec, Iztok Bobić

Projekt so podprli / Project was supported by: Sonja Kononenko

Trash robots is a series of objects that bears resemblance on robots. They were presented at the group exhibition Robot Museum which included fields such as interactivity, robotics, informatics and multimedia and was the first comprehensive exhibition of this part of contemporary Slovenian art. Trash robots were involved in artistic presentation of their cultural content and were included in the opening performance.

From the exhibition catalogue the word robot is explined as a machine controlled by computer and programmed to move or perform specific tasks. This universal term was first used by Czech writer Karel Čapek (suggested by his brother Josef Čapek) in his play R.U.R (Rossum’s Universal Robots, 1920).