Short Description: Workers of the World is a guerilla-style performance for autonomous cleaning robots. The robots are set down in a public location and as they clean they chat using text based on the plays of Bertolt Brecht, Jean Genet and Peter Weiss. They are aware of people passing, or stopping to watch and listen to them. They respond in a variety of ways depending on their mood. They may be jocular or irritated, but their remarks always point up the differences between workers and the rest. Workers of the World is a production of the Intermedia Performance Studio and premiered at the Buffalo Infringement Festival 2008
Collaborators: Josephine Anstey, Stephen Hibit, Patrice Seyed, Intermedia Performance Studio
Soft/Hardware: iRobot Create Robot, Everex Cloudbook, Open Source Software
Related Shows
Maker Faire Austin, Travis County Expo Center, Oct 18-19, 2008
Buffalo Infringement Festival 2008
Funding and Acknowledgments
Digital Humanities Initiative at Buffalo (DHIB) Funding, University at Buffalo
Honors College Research and Creative Activities Fund, University at Buffalo
Robert and Carol Morris Fund for Artistic Expression and Performing Arts