Carlos Corpa / Ana Garcia-Serrano (Spain) / Biography
PACO: POETA AUTOMATICO CALLEJERO ONLINE
PACO: Street Automatic Poet Online

PaCo (Poeta Automatico Callejero Online) is a disabled robot that navigates streets or public spaces begging for money and composing random poetry. Currently, PaCo has approximately 40 000 words at his disposal; this figure is constantly increasing, as well as its analytical capacity and grammatical processing. PaCo turns passerbys into real action actors, involving them more than they think. The other factor that strengthens this relationship is the universal gesture of asking for money. In the eyes of the passerby-turned actor, this petition closes the circle, explaining the roles of each one and provokes a response.

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DEVOLUTION  VOILES / SAILS  TICKLE SALON  SWARM PAINTINGS  PACO:  POETA AUTOMATICO CALLEJERO ONLINE  AUTOTELEMATIC SPIDER BOTS  E-SPARKS

Louis-Philippe Demers Nicolas Reeves Erwin Driessens / Maria Verstappen  Leonel Moura    Carlos Corpa / Ana Garcia-Serrano Ken Rinaldo Plancton Art Studio: Mauro Annunziato / Piero Pierucci

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CONTENTS

DVD-ROM 1
I. ARTIFICIAL BUT ACTUAL: Artificial Life
II. LIMITS OF MODELING: Evolutionary Design
III. SHINING PROSTHESES: Robotics

DVD-ROM 2
IV. BODY AS TECHNOLOGY: Techno-body Modification
V. MORE THAN A COPY, LESS THAN NOTHINGNESS: Bio and Genetic Engineering
VI. SEMI-LIVING: Tissue and Stem Cells Engineering
VII. POST SCRIPTUM: Re-Coding