Generative Ink Painting and Robot Arm

When a machine could only envision and retrace by referencing a few remaining rocks on a painting manual, what kind of landscape would be generated? The art of ink landscape painting is the result of artists’ observations of the natural world, with abstractly reassembled pictures created based on the integration of nature and mental images. Imagine a future where mankind has gone extinct, the Anthropocene and bygone natural landscapes have become traces and clues in the form of ruins. A machine remains and attempts to pass on fragments of human civilization by reassembling the limited information available.

A robotic arm inherits the human civilization in post-apocalyptic time. It replicates and creates art, using its mechanical ways to preserve and extend the preexisting formats of painting developed by mankind. The approach encompasses the extension of human will and also the possibilities and limitations with the machine serving as a tool (showing where the capacity range of machine painter and human painter overlaps and deviates). The robotic arm paints incessantly under a light, with completed paintings scattered at the side, resembling how analog videos were stacked and played back in human civilization.

Exhibition Title
The Freehand and Realistic Depiction of Technology—Smart Robot and Point Cloud

Exhibition Date
2019/ 11/ 09 - 2019/ 12/ 08

Exhibition Venue
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts