After Work. Let’s Talk About Art… with Andreas Muxel, professor for „Physical Human-Machine Interfaces“

After university or work, we invite you to a stimulating hour at Museum Brandhorst. On each occasion, we invite people from different social backgrounds to come and look at a work of art from a very personal and more or less unusual perspective. The atmosphere is relaxed, and the focus is on a shared exchange of views in front of the works, which can be continued in the Café im Zebra with music and drinks, as desired.

When we think of robots, we usually think of machines with human-like exteriors. Head, arms, legs, perhaps an abstract face with eyes—thus artificial intelligence becomes a physical being, a counterpart. Andreas Muxel at the Faculty of Design at Augsburg University of Applied Sciences deals with alternative perspectives of our relationship with proactive “robotic beings” in terms of acceptance and trust. The self-propelled object “Float” by Robert Breer, first shown at the Expo in Osaka, Japan, in 1970, moves in slow motion through the “Future Bodies” exhibition. Its form, however, is abstract and neutral. Might there nevertheless be an interface with robots?