Click the link below to see all the videos shown during last week’s movie screening. Comments are appreciated!
2001 Dawn of Man sequence
Monkey vs Robot
Qrio
Hell Yes (Beck video)
All is full of love (Bjork video)
Rubber Johnny (Aphex Twin video)
Technologic (Daft Punk video)
They’re made of meat
RoboCat
Balance
Rabbit in your headlights (U.N.K.L.E. video)
Kathleen Pinter | 16-Apr-07 at 6:30 pm | Permalink
I thought this video was intriguing and entertaining. I thought it was interesting that the ‘robot’ took on human characterisitics and was able to play the drum. Although did he really take on human characterisitics? His arms and feet were human like and his body was the robot part. So did the robot actually take on the human characteristics or was it a human really playing the drums with a robot interior?
Angela Kinsella | 18-Apr-07 at 9:07 pm | Permalink
I believe Daniel said that the person who made this video first taped himself drumming and then spliced it together, making it cool looking but also kinda creepy.
Jennifer Crabill | 20-Apr-07 at 12:14 am | Permalink
I think these videos definitely show people’s fascination with robots and willingness to watch something bizarre. Although the cat in the box on top of what seems to be one of those little self-controled vacuums is a pretty simple “robot,” it does display a stepping stone one man took to take the biological state of an animal and make it more technological.
I hadn’t seen this Aphex Twin video before. I completely appreciate the talent they have to produce really cool electronic beats, but this video is almost too weird. Also, I don’t really see how the thing in the video resembles a robot. It looks more like an alien.
Kerry Phelan | 23-Apr-07 at 5:28 pm | Permalink
At first, before I even turned on this video, the image looked very strange. After I pressed play the video was kind of cool. It was fun seeing how the robot took on human characteristics and was able to play the drums. It was also interesting to see it all happening at once because of how many arms and legs it had. It is weird to think about robots and them having multiple limbs and doing human things, but it is pretty interesting when you see it happen.
Kerry Phelan | 23-Apr-07 at 5:35 pm | Permalink
The monkey vs. robot video was odd but after thinking about it, the idea behind it was clever. Seeing the monkey, whose ancestors were the first to use technology, battle the robot, who is present/future technology, was prety funny. It made me think of how technology has evolved and become what it is now. It was a very clever way to display that idea too.
Angela Kinsella | 23-Apr-07 at 9:59 pm | Permalink
The Bjork video “All is full of love” actually is very disturbing to me. First, I don’t understand why the robots have to be the same (Bjork looking), can’t they be two different robots that are in love? Second, and most importantly, why are the robots making out?? I was really creeped out by this whole idea and the fact that people take this really seriously. THEY ARE ROBOTS! I can believe robots are super smart and can do crazy things, but I draw the line on having feelings.
William Barrett | 24-Apr-07 at 8:37 am | Permalink
The video of the monkey drumming was pretty sweet to watch because I love drums and really good drum solos and beats are great to hear. I like the idea that the guy that produced this video used his own arms to do the drumming and then incorporated it all with the monkey robot to make it look like a monkey robot doing the drumming. I wish I had as many arms so I could be a crazy drummer, but I only have two so I guess I am jealous of the monkey/robot. This video can also be a representation of how robots are developed to do specific things, and many times, robots can do things better than most humans can do.
William Barrett | 24-Apr-07 at 8:46 am | Permalink
I would have to say that I like the video “Rabbit in your headlights” by UNKLE the most because of the last scene in the video. The whole video is showing the man constantly being run over by cars on the street without any acknowledgement by the cars of hitting the guy. One car even stops to talk to the guy but it appears to the people in the car that the guy is crazy as he just keeps walking. In the last scene, the man stops in the middle of the street and when the next car hits him, it looks as if the car hits a brick wall. The car completely smashes into the guy and is destroyed while the guy stands in one place without budging from the car’s impact. I think this image and scene in the video is a very powerful image and I liked it a lot.
William Barrett | 24-Apr-07 at 8:55 am | Permalink
I am sure that anyone who watched the video “Rubber Johnny” by the Aphex twins liked it a lot. It was probably one of the most disturbing videos I have ever seen. I think Johnny was the weirdest part was because he or it looked so messed up and the crazy movements that it made during the video, correlated to the music, were pretty crazy. Also, the end parts when Johnny’s face was smashed up against the glass looked like chicken guts or something weird. However, I have to respect the producer of the video because correlating the images and movements of Rubber Johnny to the music in the video was done very well. The overall intensity of the video was pretty good; it was just a little hard to watch at times.
William Barrett | 24-Apr-07 at 9:01 am | Permalink
The 2001 Dawn of Man sequence was an interesting video showing some insight into what we have been talking about with technology and the use of tools. The monkeys in the video are shown to use the bones as a tool, like a hammer of today, to smash the rest of the bones of the animal corpse. This can be seen as the evolution and advancement of technology and tools over time as tools are and technology incorporate more and more into our lives as objects to function in daily life.
William Barrett | 24-Apr-07 at 9:08 am | Permalink
The Bjork video “All is full of love” deals with a controversial subject of emotion and human characteristics in robots. The video shows two robots intimate with each other as humans would do. There appears to be emotional as well as physical interactions between the robots which would imply that these robots are very much like humans. I am not sure what to think of the video because I am still conservative in the view that I do not think that robots will ever be able to have such human emotions and characteristics as these two robots display in this video. It is different to see this kind of human interaction taking place between robots because I have never seen that before.
Erin Murphy | 25-Apr-07 at 10:25 pm | Permalink
(Yay, Daft Punk!)
It’s funny. I watched Technologic and the Bjork video, and both gave me the same impression. The robots look sort of skeleton-like, or like a representation of our anatomy. Seeing the robots start kissing, I would have thought that they would seem more human, but actually it had the reverse affect on me. Rather, it makes the act of kissing seem more grounded in the material world. You see joints moving and placement of anatomy being acted out. Of course, kissing is a physical, material thing without our emotions added into the mix, but just watching the anatomy and movements made the process seem… less human. The same goes with the Robot baby, as it moved its mouth as a human jaw would move.
John Creger | 26-Apr-07 at 8:38 am | Permalink
The Bjork video was intriguing. I am curious as to what the other machines working on the robots represented. The title of the song is “all is love” so i presume either they were compatible with the the two lesbian robots making out and promoted it or they weren’t aware of what was going on, as if they were real robots without a conscious while the 2 chicks were. How can this be compared to human interactions? Maybe a guy hooked up to a respirator makes out wit his wife? I don’t know. it was a good video though.