They use sensors, cameras and artificial intelligence to perceive and navigate their surroundings.
Pilat said she first became fascinated by the robot dogs when she saw them on YouTube.
She contacted Boston Dynamics and asked if she could collaborate with them.
The company agreed and taught her how to use the robot dogs.
The exhibit is called Heterobota, and the robots are fully autonomous.
Pilat says this was a significant shift in her practice.
When they need to rest and recharge, they return to their docking stations.
Pilat worked with engineers and the museum to bring her vision to life.
The result is a series of 36 paintings that resemble human works of art.
Some of these paintings have sold for up to $40,000 at auction.
The exhibitions theme is generative AI.
Pilat said a language is embedded in the 16 symbols featured in the paintings.
Making it in the art world is hard enough without competing against robots.
Just imagine being a struggling artist.
You have an incredible god given ability to paint beautiful works of art.
Everyone loves your colorful lines and dots that look like they could have been painted by a 6th grader.
You’ve worked tirelessly your entire life to perfect your abstract bullshit.
You’re still broke as shit.
You’re still working at Starbucks to make ends meet.
But then imagine that an opportunity presents itself at the National Gallery of Victoria.
They start buying your paintings on a more frequent basis.
Things are starting to come together for you.
But then out of nowhere the purchases stop.
That must to be tough to swallow for my hypothetical struggling artist.
It must be wildly discouraging for everybody in the art world.
The woman responsible for this goes by Pilat.
you’re able to tell she’s important because she only goes by one name.
Pilat should be public enemy #1 to artists everywhere.
The National Gallery of Victoria should be as well.
They’re spending $40k on AI art?
Art that is, again, literally just lines and dots.
The rules to art are very stupid.
The entire art economy is held up by a house of cards.
Banksy once sold a self-destructing painting for a million dollars.
After the art self-destructed and shredded itself into a million pieces, it was resold for $27 million.
Dennis Reynolds sums it up nicely.
Dennis said, “Art is an ambiguous thing.
Just becasue you make some art, it doesn’t mean you’re an artist.
But also it does mean you’re an artist.
But does it mean that art is good art?
Is art good just because the right people say it’s good?
Yes, that’s how it works”
Also he wasn’t raped.
The way I see it, artists have a couple of options.
I think someone can take advantage of the situation.
Somebody needs to steal Pilat’s robot art dog.
If Pilat is smart, she’ll be in on it.
Robot art dog is clearly next up.
But he needs ascandalto take him to the next level.
If we stage a robot dog kidapping, his paintings will skyrocket in value.
Yo then sell the art on the deep web so that nobody can track where we are.
The dumbass art world will eat that scandal up.
Billionaires across the world will bend over backwards to get their hands on the kidnapped paintings.
I guess that doesn’t solve the problem or anything.
That’s just an idea I had to make a quick buck.
You could also just buy a robot dog artist of your own.
Sell two paintings and you’ve already made a return on your investment.
Because for some reason your robot dog isn’t the artistic genius her’s is.
Or thirdly, we can destroy the dog.
Somebody should probably destroy that dog.
Robot dog artist’s are a slippery slope.
We’ve already seen AI art take over the internet.
For something like $20/month you could have AI create whatever fucked up picture you want it to.
It would be one thing if Pilat’s robot dog was painting really cool, impressive pieces.
Like if it painted a sick dinosaur, or re-did the Mona Lisa except with bigger cans.
But we can’t let the robots do abstract art.
Abstract art is all nonsene.
Any robot can paint bullshit like that.
If we’re going to use robot dogs, we should at least require they do cool stuff.
Sorry I’m not really sure what the point of that blog was.
It just seems crazy that we’re giving this robot art the time of day.
I would think the art world would be extremely anti AI.
Apparently it’s all the rage.
Good luck to all human artists out there.
You’re competing with robots now.
