I.C.U. (Intensive Care Unit)


A robotic art installation  by
Bill Vorn
Montréal (Québec) Canada
© 2021

Produced with the help of
Le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec

 

Description

I.C.U. (Intensive Care Unit) is a robotic installation staging bedridden, sick, and suffering machines that react to the presence of viewers in a disjointed medical allegory where the mechanical creatures and their life support system start to move with pain and struggle, stretch, curl up, dislocate and resume form. This piece was conceived around the more general themes of an “ontology of the machine” and the “aesthetics of artificial behaviors” in a perspective based on the visual aspect of the machines and the programming of their reactions. Through the metaphor of an intensive care unit, this installation suggests alienation (an estrangement of reality) by an artistic appropriation of robotics and automation technologies. The strength of the simulacrum is emphasized by the inevitable instinct of anthropomorphism and projection of our internal sensations, a reflex triggered by any responsive phenomenon that challenges our senses.


 

Exhibitions


 

• International Digital Art Bienniale  BIAN 2021 
(Montreal, Canada)
November 19, 2021, to February 13, 2022


 

Documentation


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