Bill Vorn / Emma Howes / Jonathan Villeneuve (Canada) / Biography
GRACE STATE MACHINES

Grace State Machines is a Robotic Art performance project. The name of the project is inspired by a virtual ‘state of grace’ that could be expressed by automatons and other finite state machines. Through this project, we want to explore the close relationship between the real physical human body and machine body. We want to express the inner perceptions of both entities and how they intertwine, blend, mingle and become blurred as they interact and exchange in an intimate dialog between the organic and the artefact.

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GRACE STATE MACHINES  THE TELEGARDEN SEXED ROBOTS  ALEXITIMIA — AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC AGENT  AUTOINDUCER_PH-1:  CROSS CULTURAL CHEMISTRY  EXOSKELETON / WALKING HEAD  MEART — THE SEMI LIVING ARTIST

Bill Vorn / Emma Howes / Jonathan Villeneuve Ken Goldberg Paul Granjon   Paula Gaetano Adi   Andy Gracie Stelarc SymbioticA Research Group / The Potter Lab

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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