Dear sun yuan and peng yu meaning1/8/2024 ![]() That is, I think, where we start to draw the parallels between a robot sweeping up liquid and our own lives. Detwyler, Myra Sun, Dongxin Zou, Rachel Newman, Zheng Yiren, Susan Su, Yuan Ye. The movement, the performance of the robot, is what gets its audience to empathize with it and subsequently relate to it. and the political significance of children in modern Chinese history. The piece certainly would not have this impact if it were a painting or still sculpture. The robot’s constant, unending task that only gets harder and harder to complete as the liquid splatters and dries on the walls and out of its reach but in view of its sensors reminds me of it too. It makes me think about how so many of these systems are unsustainable, pushing us all closer to environmental disaster. Using an industrial robot reminds me of our automated existence (in my part of the world), and how we have become so reliant on factory lines, to the point that if it all failed tomorrow, many of us would find it incredibly difficult to survive. There are several interpretations of the meaning of this artwork, and I agree with all of them (that I have found), only to different extents. The frequency movements have also slowly started to decline, however, as the liquid gets harder to contain. It’s also interesting to note that the robot only performs these movements if it senses that there are visitors close to it as well as the liquid being contained. The movements, named “scratch an itch”, or “bow and shake”, quickly endear the robot to its audience, and behind its glass cage-like walls, performing its Sisyphean task, it’s difficult not to forget that it is just a robot. These movements are designed to be lifelike, almost animal or even human. ![]() It is also able to perform thirty two separate movements when it has completed its task, until its sensors decide that the liquid has spread too far again. ![]() They fitted the robot with a brush of sorts and programmed it to have one primary duty, to scoop up a dark red liquid from around it into a set area. Sun Yuan and Peng Yu worked with robotics engineers to modify an industrial robot that had been made for factory automation. “Can’t Help Myself” was commissioned for the Tales of Our Time exhibition at the Guggenheim in Manhattan.
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