Roomba Ballet
Roomba Ballet
Presented at Biennale Interiur 2014, Roomba Ballet was the final phase of the exhibition SQM: The Quantified Home by curator Joseph Grima and his Genova-based collective Space Caviar, which took place in the gym of the Broel School, Kortrijk. It represented the apotheosis of the smart home in a choreographed dance of iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaners. Each Roomba was controlled by an Arduino based board, which sent the instructions via the Roomba serial port, using the iRobot SCI protocol. The robots danced in pairs to a classic waltz, the Blue Danube waltz by Strauss.
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credits:
Pietro Leoni hacking and coding
Kostas Tsioukas coreographer
exhibitions:
2014
SQM: The Quantified Home
Biennale Interiur, Kortrijk
curator:
Joseph
Grima
thanks:
Officine Arduino prototipation facilities
Delfino Sisto Legnani photographer
press:
Oct 25 2014
Joseph Grima curates the home does not exist for Biennale Interieur
on: designboom
author:
Andrea Chin
Oct 24 2014
Robotic vacuum cleaners perform a Viennese Waltz at Biennale Interieur 2014
on: dezeen
author:
Don Howarth
Oct 22 2014
The home does not exist
on: Domusweb