Robot 250 - BigBot "Reach, Robot"

http://www.robot250.org/festival/bigbots/coleman/

PPG Place's BigBot, "Reach,Robot", will work as a sound and visual/kinetic installation as well as a domain for public interaction and participation. Using technologies that include laser sensing devices, a network of strands or "webbing" of cables will be suspended above the heads of the public.

The public interacts with "Reach,Robot" through different physical gestures: walking, pausing, stepping, reaching - throughout different areas of the PPG Plaza. The pedestrian can activate, or "conduct" this robotic field, a confluence of webbing with sensor technology, triggering fragments of sound that together create an ambient symphonic environment. Coleman's composition is original contemporary music that references and samples the rich history of Pittsburgh's Black heritage.

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Science & Technology

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• robot
• robotics
• art
• pittsburgh
• pittsburgh250
• carnegie
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