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Jackoon painting robot is a mini, motorized Jackson Pollock
Oscar G Torres, the grad student who presented this Helios gadget-charging power tree last year at NYU's ITP show was back at the Spring ITP show this year with Jackoon, a robot that paints. Jackoon is named after Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning— both real artists whom the robot's work resembles.
But unlike the BrushBots at last year's show, the Jackoon doesn't apply its paint randomly. There's a camera on the ceiling that knows where the 'bot is on the canvas and directs it based on an image that the robot is supposed to imitate, and on the color paint that the robot has in its arsenal.
We'll admit, the paintings that the robot has completed so far (see below) are not exactly Pollock-level masterpieces. But give the little guy a chance— he's brand new, but in a few years, we might have trouble distinguishing his work from those of the masters.
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By kloni at 12:31 PM ON 05/11/09
Thats too hilarious! For what making your fingers dirty, when you can have the Jackoon Robot! :)
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By Mr. Gumsandals at 1:14 PM ON 05/11/09
If Jackson Pollock were still alive and he was at the controls throwing paint, would that make robot-assited art acceptable? Even if it's not considered art, there's always someone out there who will buy it because, if nothing else, it says a whole lot about man and his relationship with machines. I predict the first Jackoon paintings will become collectors items and sell for big bucks especially since they are on a large scale.
By SteelFox at 3:46 PM ON 05/11/09
In my mind the flower painting is better than most the "Modern Art" out there. IMO though if you can't tell whether or not a 2 year old finger painted it. I isn't art.
By ottoscorzato at 5:03 PM ON 05/11/09
That's totally an Au Bon Pain soup cup he's spooning paint out of. Way to be resourceful! =)
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