robotlab
- founded in, place
- 2000, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Role at the ZKM
- Guest Artist
- Institute / Department
- Institute for Visual Media
- Members
- Biography
robotlab works with industrial robots in public spaces. The artist group, founded at the beginning of 2000 by Matthias Gommel, Martina Richter (aka Martina Haitz) and Jan Zappe, develops experimental labs, performances and installations to explore the complex relationship between man and machine.
The specific qualities of the robots' movement and their computer-based control offer multifaceted possibilities of depicting digital codes in real space. Through robotlab's projects, machines which are normally situated in special industrial spaces are integrated into the context of art, invading various fields like music, dance and science. The serially produced industrial robots represent a potential culture of robots where machines, as everyday appliances, will have an influence on our daily lives.
Exhibitions/Presentations (selected) 2001 »CYNETart Festival«, Festspielhaus Hellerau, Dresden [D], 16.-17.11.2001 »FER - Festival d'Expériences Robotiques«, Frameries [B], 04.08.-02.09.2001 2002 »Elektra Festival« Montreal [CA], 14.-16.11.2002 »transmediale.02 [go public!]« Berlin [D], 05.-10.02.2002 »Tanzfestival SIDance 2002« Seoul Art Center [KR], 05.-06.10.2002 2003 »IMKP - Internationaler Medienkunstpreis«, ZKM Karlsruhe [D], 14.-23.11.2003 2004 »GOG-BOT Media Art Festival« Enschede [NL], 31.10.-01.11.2004 »Unter Strom« Kunsthalle Darmstadt [D], 20.06.-20.08.2004 »ZKMax« München [D], 14.-16.10.2004 »Robotix« Frameries [B], 13.03.-25.04.2004 2005 »Robodock Festival« Amsterdam [NL], 21-24.09.2005 »Wired Nextfest« Chicago [USA], 23.-26.06.2005 »Timewarp Mannheim green« Mannheim [D], 02.-03.04.2005 »Bewegliche Teile« Kunsthaus Graz [A], 15.01.2005 2006 »OFF-TIME! - robotlab-Einzelausstellung, Robot Museum Nagoya [JP], 12.10.2006-04.02.2007 »Wired Nextfest« NY [USA], 28.09.-01.20.2006 »STRP Art & Technology Festival« Eindhoven [NL], 24.-26.03.2006 2007 »FASTFORWARD ON NEW MEDIA ART: ROBOTS«, PAN Neapel [IT], 08.11.-03.12.2007 »Wired Nextfest« LA[USA], 13.-16.09.2007 »Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest [HU], 23.03.-28.05.2007 2008 »ART Karlsruhe« Karlsruhe[D], 28.02.-02.03.2008 2009 »IMAGINING MEDIA@ZKM«, ZKM⎥Media Museum [D], 10.10.2009-31.12.2010 Projects (selected) - »jukebots« 2001 [Soundinstallation]
- »zone« 2001/2 [Mensch-Maschine Dance Performance]
- »autoportrait« 2002 [Interactive Installation]
- »profiler« 2004 [Interactive Installation]
- »instrument« 2005 [Soundinstallation]
- »bios [bible]« · 2007 [Installation]
- »manifest« 2008 [Installation]
[2009]