Roböxotica: Symposium 2009 - Technotopia Event

Welcome to Roboexotica!
Cheers! Next Roboexotica will take place in Vienna December 3-6, 2009. Special cocktail robot workshops: November 9-14, 2009.

Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

Saturday, Dec 5, 2009
Schedule

2 PM exhibition and symposium

exhibition open until 10 PM

Symposium 2009
TECHNOTOPIA!
The implementation of technology mostly depends on its potential to be associated with utopian relevance. By taking part in the development, testing, propagating and nationwide distribution of technological innovations, we - as developers, media workers, and consumers - are asked to also participate in the evolvement of a future in which technology will have tackled the problems of the present for good. These problems are usually nothing but effects and consequences of our techno-capitalistic past and present. And yet: the utopian scenarios of reparation are supposed to be capable of correcting these shortcomings in the future. This, after all, is the essence of the belief in technology, a belief which time and again prompts us to participate and invest our work, time, money, and of course, our hope in it.