Kacie Kinzer – Tweenbots
Tweenbot, a happy little cardboard robot, was set lose in Washington Square Park to try and traverse from one corner to the other with the help of the masses. The little guy is the creation of Tisch School of Arts student Kacie Kinzer who is conducting an experiment to see our willingness to interact with things within a space with us. In her own words:
“In New York, we are very occupied with getting from one place to another. I wondered: could a human-like object traverse sidewalks and streets along with us, and in so doing, create a narrative about our relationship to space and our willingness to interact with what we find in it? More importantly, how could our actions be seen within a larger context of human connection that emerges from the complexity of the city itself? To answer these questions, I built robots.”
Just have to love how “one man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, ‘You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.’”
More robots coming soon.
Website – tweenbots.com
[via Gizmodo]
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