Shanken pg 140-166

On page 140, Shanken discuses that "Artists have joined their bodies, and their audiences, with electronic media or or created robots and other forms of surrogate beings in order to examine the cyborgian  nature of human existence and to ponder what a post-human existence might be." This concept is intriguing because no one really knows what a future after humans would look like. I start  to think of a film called I, Robot, and imagine it would look something like that but maybe not as chaotic.  But at the moment, robots require someone to program them, they cannot function on their own without someone assisting in the maintenance of them. One piece in particular that has great potential is the piece called The Senster by Edward Ihnatowicz, which had many capabilities including being able to respond to stimuli via a microphone and computer. To me this feels like artists are trying create these robots to be somewhat alive, but once the artificial intelligence is implemented, that would be something awesome to see with all the other capabilities of these kinds of robots.