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Coy-B, an Art Robot for Exploring the Ontology of Artificial Creatures

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The author is a performance and visual artist whose interest lies in the co-evolution of humans and machines, a subject he explores with self-made machines. The paper describes the aims, method, and context of Coy-B, a robot designed for a performance art experiment in human-robot interaction loosely based on Joseph Beuys’ I Like America and America Likes Me (1974) where the German artist shared a gallery space in New York for several days with a wild coyote. Coy-B will feature in a series of durational performances for an autonomous mobile robot and a human, where the robot will take the role occupied by the coyote in Beuys’ piece. Diametrically opposed to the coyote who symbolised a natural instinctual dimension, the Coy-B robot is a representative of contemporary techno-scientific achievements, a fully artificial creature.

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  1. Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, UK

    Paul Granjon

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Ashutosh Natraj

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Stephen Cameron

  3. University of Bristol and the West of En, Bristol, United Kingdom

    Chris Melhuish

  4. Imperial College London Department of Electrical and Electronic, London, United Kingdom

    Mark Witkowski

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Granjon, P. (2014). Coy-B, an Art Robot for Exploring the Ontology of Artificial Creatures. In: Natraj, A., Cameron, S., Melhuish, C., Witkowski, M. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-43645-5_4

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