Camouflage Town
ActiveMedia robot, website, video documentation, network plates
54 x 32 x 32 in
2001
Camouflage Town is a decoy town constructed for the practice of military maneuvers, war, and other scenarios of high drama. The robot, "Kiru", lived in the first-floor lobby and gallery of the Whitney Museum. As a telerobot, Kiru allowed remote visitors to communicate with physical visitors in the museum. Remote visitors controlled the robot’s locomotion, pan, tilt and zoom of its camera over the web and spoke to museum visitors via text to speech and heard their responses. When autonomous, the robot relayed its history as the Librarian of Juxtapositions in Camouflage Town.
Photos by
Logan Becket