Katrin Hochschuh & Adam Donovan
Curious Tautophone – Tensor Field Ontology

This robotic installation with responsive projection is as much an apparatus of art as it is a tool for music and an instrument of psychology and physics. Tautophone is a reference to the projective “auditory Rorschach” tests developed by psychologists Skinner, Rosenzweig, and Shakow in the 1930s and 1940s, while Curious here refers to the robot's motivation to explore its surroundings and to learn.

Reflecting the human capability to feel attachment to inanimate objects, the Curious Tautophone's role is to recalibrate the cognitive tissue that binds man and machine.

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Photo credits: Hochschuh & Donovan / artists