Wendy McMurdo RSA
Early Research Robot (i) for Jon Oberlander, 2011
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80 x 80 cm
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Early Research Robot (i) for Jon Oberlander (2011) was, like much of Wendy McMurdo’s work during this period, based on an object in the holdings of the National Museum of...
Early Research Robot (i) for Jon Oberlander (2011) was, like much of Wendy McMurdo’s work during
this period, based on an object in the holdings of the National Museum of Scotland. In Early
Research Robot, she photographed an object which had particular relevance in the history of
robotics – the first ‘thinking’ robot.
‘Freddy’ was built in the early 1970s by researchers at the Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI),
University of Edinburgh and was the world’s first thinking robot to combine a seeing eye and feeling
hand., McMurdo has superimposed human features on to the anthropomimetic face of Freddy,
reflecting on our desire to create meaningful relationships with machines.
This piece is dedicated to Jon Oberlander, artificial intelligence pioneer and Professor of Epistemics
at University of Edinburgh until his death in 2017. Wendy McMurdo’s conversations with Jon over
the years she shared with him on the Board of New Media Scotland inspired much of her own work
on our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence.
This work is priced framed. Framed in a white box frame.
this period, based on an object in the holdings of the National Museum of Scotland. In Early
Research Robot, she photographed an object which had particular relevance in the history of
robotics – the first ‘thinking’ robot.
‘Freddy’ was built in the early 1970s by researchers at the Department of Artificial Intelligence (AI),
University of Edinburgh and was the world’s first thinking robot to combine a seeing eye and feeling
hand., McMurdo has superimposed human features on to the anthropomimetic face of Freddy,
reflecting on our desire to create meaningful relationships with machines.
This piece is dedicated to Jon Oberlander, artificial intelligence pioneer and Professor of Epistemics
at University of Edinburgh until his death in 2017. Wendy McMurdo’s conversations with Jon over
the years she shared with him on the Board of New Media Scotland inspired much of her own work
on our evolving relationship with artificial intelligence.
This work is priced framed. Framed in a white box frame.