A Robot's Dream

A Robot’s Dream invites visitors to witness the advent of humanoid robots in architecture. The immersive environment features a humanoid robot within curved walls made of robotically assembled rebar meshes. These intricate mesh walls function as a perceptual interface, alternately revealing and obscuring views, offering glimpses of a suspended humanoid robot. The rebar mesh acts as a visual filter, suggesting the simultaneous division, yet entanglement of humans and artificial beings.
Floating mid-air in a sleeping pose, the robot exists in a dream-like state, occasionally displaying delicate, anthropomorphic, alienating gestures—bodily expressions of a dream shifting between comfort and nightmare. Audio and visual cues and contextual photography, visitors witness the robot’s hallucinations—memories, aspirations, power, and anxieties about functioning in a world designed by and for humans.