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A Robot’s Daily Pastime

Cyborg Assemblages
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A Robot’s Daily Pastime is an AR interactive video installation that explores the role of artificial intelligence in everyday life with humor and absurdity. While robots are equipped with precise logic and powerful computational abilities, they often display unexpected reactions when confronted with mundane human routines. This work portrays a robot attempting to comprehend human ways of living generates whimsical and absurd behaviors in the repetition of daily routines.

Shifting from strict computational logic to humorous thinking that is almost like mankind, even producing gestures that may be meaningless yet full of playful charm, the piece exaggerates the robot’s actions through visual narrative. This re-imagination overturns the cold and rigid stereotype of technology, while also mirrors the absurdity of human behavior in an era of hyper-automation. As we relentlessly pursue intelligence and efficiency, are we ourselves becoming increasingly mechanical? And when machines begin to display humor, might they be acquiring a trace of “humanity”?

Yi-Chun CHEN

Chen I-Chun received her Ph.D. from the Department of Fine Arts at the Taipei National University of the Arts. Her artistic practice spans multiple media including video art, experimental animation, interactive installation, mixed media, and painting. Her work focuses on social issues surrounding industrial areas, urban peripheries, and working-class communities, while exploring personal experiences between reality and illusion through the collection and transformation of folk stories. Through poetic visual language accompanied by romantic music box sounds, her works offer observations and responses to social realities while conveying a seemingly quixotic hope and expectation. Through this unique narrative approach, she attempts to establish a profound dialogue with contemporary society through her artistic creation. She currently lives and works in Taiwan.
 
Special Thanks to: Department of Art and Design, Yuan Ze University, Yo-Dian Interactive