Talking refrigerators, intelligent car seat electronics, self-steering vacuum cleaners, nano-robots for medical use: the exploration of artificial intelligence and its practical applications might still seem utopian and even frightening today, but tomorrow will simply be taken for granted as an integral part of everyday household appliances.
The catalog Robot Dreams is dedicated to this intriguing topic, showing how contemporary art is helping us to understand and handle the rapid advances being made in the field of artificial intelligence. The book accompanies an exhibition at Museum Tinguely in Basel and Kunsthaus Graz featuring new works by artists Luc Mattenberger, Thomas Baumann, John Bock, Daniel Reichmuth / Sibylle Hauert, Niki Passath, R&Sie(n) with Stepan Henrich, Virgil Widrich and Kirsty Boyle, as well as older pieces by Ed Kienholz, Walter Pichler, Nam June Paik, Richard Kriesche, Stelarc, Jessica Field and others.

Editor: Museum Tinguely Basel
Authors: Isaac Asimov, Joachim Schätz, Jutta Weber, Lilian Pfaff, Wenzel Mracek

Softcover
24 x 28 cm
160 pages
150 color ills.
German/English
available
ISBN 978-3-86828-142-2
36 Euro
2010