Controls And Art: Inquiries At The Intersection Of The Subjective And The Objective
by Magnus Egerstedt /
2014 / English / PDF
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Dancing humanoids, robotic art installations, and music generated
by mathematically precise methods are no longer science fiction;
in fact they are the subject of this book. This first-of-its-kind
anthology assembles technical research that makes such creations
possible. In order to mechanize something as enigmatic and
personal as dance, researchers must delve deeply into two
distinct academic disciplines: control theory and
art. Broadly, this research uses techniques from the world
of art to inspire methods in control, enables artistic endeavours
using advanced control theory and aids in the analysis of art
using metrics devised by a systems theoretic approach.
Dancing humanoids, robotic art installations, and music generated
by mathematically precise methods are no longer science fiction;
in fact they are the subject of this book. This first-of-its-kind
anthology assembles technical research that makes such creations
possible. In order to mechanize something as enigmatic and
personal as dance, researchers must delve deeply into two
distinct academic disciplines: control theory and
art. Broadly, this research uses techniques from the world
of art to inspire methods in control, enables artistic endeavours
using advanced control theory and aids in the analysis of art
using metrics devised by a systems theoretic approach.
To ensure that artistic influences are well represented, the
individual chapters are focused so that they relate their
contribution to the arts meaningfully and explicitly. Specially
composed introductions set up the contributions either in terms
of inspiration by artistic principles or their contribution to
the arts through new analysis tools. To facilitate this, the
majority of the chapters are authored jointly by experts in
control theory and by artists, including dancers, choreographers,
puppeteers and painters. Connections between controls and art
then permeate the text so that these important relationships play
a central role in the book.
To ensure that artistic influences are well represented, the
individual chapters are focused so that they relate their
contribution to the arts meaningfully and explicitly. Specially
composed introductions set up the contributions either in terms
of inspiration by artistic principles or their contribution to
the arts through new analysis tools. To facilitate this, the
majority of the chapters are authored jointly by experts in
control theory and by artists, including dancers, choreographers,
puppeteers and painters. Connections between controls and art
then permeate the text so that these important relationships play
a central role in the book.Controls and Art
Controls and Art surveys current projects in this
area—including a disco dancing robot, a reactive museum exhibit
and otherworldly music—and illuminates open problems and topics
for research in this emerging interdisciplinary field. It will
draw attention both from experts in robotics and control
interested in developing the artistic side of their creations and
from academics studying dance, theater, music and the visual arts
with an interest in
surveys current projects in this
area—including a disco dancing robot, a reactive museum exhibit
and otherworldly music—and illuminates open problems and topics
for research in this emerging interdisciplinary field. It will
draw attention both from experts in robotics and control
interested in developing the artistic side of their creations and
from academics studying dance, theater, music and the visual arts
with an interest inavant-garde
avant-garde means of production.
means of production.