Roboexotica
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Roboexotica (sometimes spelled: Roböxotica) is an annual festival where scientists, researchers, computer experts and artists from all over the world build cocktail robots and discuss technological innovation, futurology and science fiction. Roboexotica is also an ironic attempt to criticize techno-triumphalism and to dissect technological hypes.
The festival is co-produced by Shifz and monochrom, two Vienna-based art collectives, and supported by the 'Bureau for Philosophy' (of the Department of Philosophy, University of Vienna).
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[edit] History
In 1999 Magnus Wurzer and Chris Veigl (Shifz) started to present cocktail robots at a small Viennese punk venue. In 2002 the group monochrom (Johannes Grenzfurthner, Günther Friesinger etc.) teamed up with them and the small event became a big international festival presented at Vienna's Museumsquartier.
[edit] Structure
The annual international festival consists of an exhibition, a conference, social events, and the ACRA (Annual Cocktail Robot Award).
The festival is usually held at the end of November.
[edit] Media
Roboexotica has been featured on Slashdot, Wired News, Reuters, CNN and blogs like Boing Boing, Geek Entertainment TV and New Scientist.
[edit] Additional info
Roboexotica was presented at Cyberpipe (Ljubljana) in 2006, at Maker Faire (San Francisco) and RoboGames (San Francisco) in 2007.
The 10th annual Roboexotica will take place in Nov 2008 in Vienna.
A smaller show called "Roboexotica USA" was held in San Francisco in May 2008. It was organized by monochrom and Shifz and was well-received by the press.
