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How An Artist In 1915 Pointed The Way To Today’s Robots

DANCE Posted: December 30, 2016 8:32 am

“By mixing moving bodies with mechanically repeating geometries, Oskar Schlemmer pointed us at today’s world of work, where automation is everywhere in the transcendent projects of globalizing neo-liberalism. Yet the smooth, cute, and joyous mood of Schlemmer’s robotic sensibility conveys something that at least temporarily alleviates the feeling that we are living in an epoch of click-bait robotics fueled by predatory virtual capital, where memes and farcical fragments of vanity culture keep repeating before our eyes, ad infinitum.”

DANCE Published: 12.29.16

Read the story in Hyperallergic Published: 12.29.16

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