[Shockbot] "Corejulio"

5VOLTCORE has built a programme controlled robot (Shockbot Corejulio, Transmediale Award 2005) that creates asthetic information out of dysfunction in the form of audio and visual output.

 

Shockbot Corejulio is built out of three main parts:

1st the programme that controls the shockbot, 2nd the circuit board, that operates, via relays, the (3rd) motors that then move the shockbot. Essential for the piece is the circular process between the computer and the shockbot. The computer sends impulses to the robot that subsequently moves on it's tracks targeting random points within the computer hardware.

At the point of contact a short-circuit occurs creating a fault current. This error is recognized as a command and in an attempt to interpret this disinformation, the computer creates, together with the shockbot, random pictures on the display.

As the damage to the computer increases, there is a proportional rise of dysfunction to the controll signal. This overload of errors ends in a total collapse of the system.