An Installation Lets You Play with Robots Long-Distance The Creators Project

Ever since HAL asserted, "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that," different artists have been expressing the anxiety associated with a phenomenon that would come to be known as "the Internet of Things." This week at The Goat Farm Arts Center in Atlanta, artists Andy Pruett (of interactive studio Second Story) and Nate Turley are creating an unique environment dedicated to one question: To what extent do we control the web, and to what extent does it control us? Tomorrow, in association with interactive media space 9to5, the artists will code custom robots that respond to different objects, lights, and sensors within a controlled space at The Goat Farm. Once the artists code the bots, the project interface then becomes completely collaborative with both viewers who are physically in the space and viewers tuned in from 9to5's public streaming site.