EXPO2000


future intelligence: swarming robots

The exhibition is immersed in blue light. 72 oblong, mobile objects circle around the room like a swarm. These futuristic devices are between one-and-a-half and three-and-a-half metres long and follow each other. Underneath their translucent plastic skins, projectors cast films and images onto their surfaces. At times, these group together to form a combined image, at others individual motives rotate around the mobile objects. In this way, short stories about writing and language, culture and communication, about the microcosm and the macrocosm are told. At the exhibition "Knowledge, Information, Communication", the swarm represents information culture: Only by combining and exchanging many small bits of information is knowledge created. The visitors, too, are part of the exhibit: They influence the robot swarm's movement.

http://www.bbm-ww.de (english version available)
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