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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I love robotics that have an aesthetic sensibility! </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>J</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>One of my favorite books is <i>Genese D’ Un Peuple Artificiel: ROBOTS </i> by Daniel Ichbiah (link: <</span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Robots-gen%C3%A8se-artificiel-Edition-ebook/dp/B007BY4FZ4">http://www.amazon.com/Robots-gen%C3%A8se-artificiel-Edition-ebook/dp/B007BY4FZ4</a>>) It is a visual delight (plus I am featured in the last chapter along with some pretty interesting folks!)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Natasha<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.natasha.cc/"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Natasha Vita-More, PhD</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Tom Nowell<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, September 04, 2012 3:49 PM<br><b>To:</b> extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] robotic art<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='color:black'>I don't know how many people on this list have an aesthetic sensibility which adores robots, but this show which is now showing in California caught my eye:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;background:white'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'><a href="http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/press/1346795232.pdf">http://www.coreyhelfordgallery.com/press/1346795232.pdf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>(That's the press release for a showing in Culver City)<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>As a Brit, I really must make it to the kinetica art fair next year - held in London at the end of February, it appears to be filled with more mobile, electronic, robotic pieces of art than I can shake a stick at. And I'm quite practised at stick-waving.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:black'>Tom<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>