Robots in Art Timeline

This page contains a timeline showing significant robots in art events, and dates showing the creation or announcement of the robots.

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 1966 – James Seawright
 1968 – Cybertheater – Lev Nusberg
 1969 – Cybernetic Sculpture – Les Levine
 1969 – Tim Hunkin "Mechanical Man"
 1976 – AARON – Harold Cohen
 19xx – Dead Chickens
 19xx – Arthur Ganson
 19xx – Gilbert Peyre
 19xx – Edward Ihnatowicz
 19xx – Jim Whiting
 19xx – Eduardo Kac
 1991 – Kraftwerk's Robots
 19xx – Strandbeest – Theo Jansen
 19xx – Chico MacMurtrie / Amorphous
 19xx – Mark Pauline / SRL
 19xx – Pask – Colloquy
 19xx – Roland Emett
 19xx – Tim Lewis
 19xx – Kenji Yanobe
 19xx – Kenneth Rinaldo
 19xx – Norman White
 19xx – Louis Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn
 19xx – Daniel Depoutot
 19xx – BBM
 19xx – Paul McCarthy
 19xx – Simon Penny
 19xx – Alan Rath
 19xx – Stelarc
19xx – Tim Hawkinson
  19xx – Heri Dono
19xx – Chris Burdon
more
 
Early Drawing, Writing and Painting Machines (under construction)
1770c – Jaquet-Droz Scribe 1772 Draughtsman
 1760s – Friedrick von Knaus
 Philadelphia Doll – Maillardet Bros
 18xx – Georges Mieles / Robert-Houdin – Drawing Automaton
 1920 – Marcel Duchamp – Rotary Glass Plates
 1976 – AARON – Harold Cohen
 1977-8 – Anton Perich Painting Machine
 1982 – Arthur Ganson Writing Machine "Go Faster"
 1984-6 – Theo Jansen Painting Machine
 1993 – Tim Hawkinson "Signature"
1990 – Angela Bulloch Painting machine "Betaville" & "Mudslinger" 1995
1995 – Natasha Kidd Painting Machines
1996 – Mark Hoskin "Word Turn"
 1998 – David Taylor – Pollockizer
 1999 – Carlos Corpa Drawing Machine
  2000 – Tim Lewis "Auto-Dali Prosthetic"
  "Hex" Discworld computer output device
 
Early Mechanical Talking Machines (under construction)
1770c- Friedrick von Knaus talking machine
  1771 – Erasmus Darwin Wooden mouth
  1769-91 – Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen
  1778 – Abbe Mical Talking heads
1779 – Christian Kratzenstein's resonators
1806 – Posch Speaking Machine (German)
1823 – Maelzel's Talking dolls and The Turk
1828 – Robertson
  1835 – Charles Wheatstone
  1840 – Joseph Faber's Euphonia
Alexander Graham & Melville Bell
  1837 – R.R. Reisz
1922 – J. Q. Stewart's  Electrical analog of the vocal organs
  1939 – Homer Dudley – Voder
1950 – Dunn's Electrical Vocal Tract
  19xx – Martin Riches – MotorMouth & Talking Machine
  1999?- Nicolas Anatol Baginsky – "Elizabeth Gardner"
200x – Jim Whiting ElectroMechanical voice box
  2004 – Maywa Denki "Seamoons" Artificial Vocal Cords
  2005c – Waseda Talking Robots – Kentaro Takada and Atsuo Takanishi
 2008 – Kagawa Artificial voice
 
Other Art Machines (Australian)
 
Related Art Work
 Raymond Morales Metal Sculptures at Musee Morales

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