Paula Gaetano Adi (Argentina) / Biography
ALEXITIMIA – AN AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC AGENT

Alexitimia (from the Greek): a- (prefix meaning ‘lack’), lexis (‘word’) and thymos (‘feelings’ or ‘emotions’). Alexitimia is an ‘autonomous robotic agent’ whose behavior is analogous to the process of perspiration of the human skin. This robot, without any anthropomorphic (or robotic) appearance, interacts and communicates with the environment by only a tactile way of perception. Therefore, using its ‘artificial skin’ as an interface, the corporeal scheme of this robot begins to sweat when somebody (a spectator) touches it.

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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