Do NodeBots Dream with Electric Paint?

Can a robot be an artist?

Talk given at NodeConf EU 2014 in Waterford, Ireland.

Demo video: http://youtu.be/rA-esSK5AYQ
Code: https://github.com/rockbot/artbot

Transcript

1. Do NodeBots Dream with Electric Paint? Brought to you by @rockbot https://flic.kr/p/ajcZdN
2. NodeBots Susan Hinton @noopkat
3. Matthew Bergman @fotoverite Matthew Bergman @fotoverite Tracy Hines @hackygolucky
4. Let’s talk about art
5. No 14 (Gray), Jackson Pollock
6. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. — Edgar Degas
7. Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced. — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
9. Let’s Draw 1 Mediterranean Landscape, Pablo Picasso
10. Express canvas client-side JS vektor
11. Demo #1
12. Let’s Drive Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh
13. Express canvas client-side JS vektor socket.io johnny-five
14. Demo #2
15. Question time The Waterlily Pond with the Japanese Bridge, 1899, Claude Monet
16. If we draw on a canvas, does that make us artists?
17. If we make ArtBot draw, who is the artist?
18. When can ArtBot be the artist?
19. 4Birth of an Artist Three Dancers, Edgar Degas
20. Two Decisions
21. To draw or not to draw? 1
22. Move or Turn? 2
24. Ready?
25. 5THE DEMO OF ALL DEMOS Convergence, Jackson Pollock
26. http://youtu.be/rA-esSK5AYQ
28. Who is the artist now?
29. … so what?
30. It’s all Node
32. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA04413.jpg
33. We’re just getting started.
34. Raquel Vélez
    ! @rockbot
    http://rckbt.me
    raquel@ js.com
    ! https://github.com/rockbot/artbot