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Sarah Thee Campagna Makes Robot Sculptures (Video)
Sarah's CyberCraft "about" page says, "Here at CyberCraft Robots, our Orbiting Laboratory allows us to search local star systems for Artifacts from the Future." CyberCraft's Earthside component is in St. Petersburg, Florida, where Sarah assembles robots from found parts that others might think are just ordinary industrial detritus, but that she has learned to recognize as parts from disassembled or abandoned robots. She has an alternate version of CyberCraft's history for people "with less imagination," about how she jumped from being a math whiz to studying for an EE to working as a programmer to art... and into making art robots. Or robot art, depending on how you look at it. The robots, ray guns, and spaceships Sarah makes will not fight battles or clean your house. They just sit there and look good. And they get shown in fine art galleries, so we know they're art, not just ordinary robots. This isn't to say Sarah is the only human making robot sculptures. A Google search for "robot sculpture" turns up plenty of others. We met Sarah purely by chance. We easily could have met one of the many other robot sculptors instead, but she's the one we happened to come across first. Perhaps the Quantum Computer that runs the Orbiting Robot Laboratory directed us to her. That's as good an explanation as any, isn't it?
Ok, so I take a brief catnap, wake up and go check out slashdot where I see this story. I am now going back to sleep in hopes that I wake up for real, at which point I will return to slashdot and see that in fact this was never posted.
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Actually they're not even dolls, since they're bolted to plates. They're sculptures that look like robots. One might even go as far as saying they're not even that - since these sculptures fulfill no purpose or explain nothing insofar as they are aesthetic. Their back stories are not relevant or discernible from their form. They're just pretty, if that.
If that, indeed.
I would like the 9 minutes of my life that I spent watching that nonsense back, and you can keep the junk you welded together.
You see this stuff by the roadside of any country bumpkin that bought a welder. (or a Chainsaw).
You always drive past, and never once think of posting it on Slashdot.
Those are the rules folks.
No, inventing a ridiculous back story doesn't earn you an exception.
Sig Battery depleted. Reverting to safe mode.
And they get shown in fine art galleries, so we know they're art, not just ordinary robots.
MoMA? LACMA? nope, according to the website we're just showcasing around the florida area. sure, they can be regular art, lets just take a step back from comparing it to works from artists like Brendan Carney, Jonathan Hartshorn, Thury Sigurthorsdottir, or Scott Lawrence
We met Sarah purely by chance.
Perhaps. Seeing as slashdot video articles are commonly geared exclusively toward slashvertisement I'll fashion another theory. People ignore these like the plague, so to drum up more support (and targeted advertising interest) you gin-up a nice fluff piece and build some click metrics.
Sarah assembles robots from found parts that others might think are just ordinary industrial detritus
thats because they are industrial detritus. these are the to slashdot as Folk Art is to a 62 year old empty nester, only most of us are intelligent enough not to venture on down to the gift shop at the St Petersburg museum (thats the world famous Florida location, not the Moscow one) and blow $340 on a paperweight because it reminds us of robots.
Perhaps the Quantum Computer that runs the Orbiting Robot Laboratory directed us to her.
Perhaps it can redirect your milton freeman head out of your moneygrabbing arse and point it in the direction of meaningful news for nerds instead of a middle aged EE Dropout who moved to florida to follow her true calling hocking scrap steel figurines.
Good people go to bed earlier.