The ' can't help myself robot'
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if you scroll social media and are interested in art.
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Just like I am, you probably came across this artwork.
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My name is Maria flores school and today I am going to talk about the well known.
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Can't help myself. Robot.
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I took this topic because it has somehow touched me.
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After seeing the robot in action.
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Today I'm going to walk you to the artists. What this robot actually is.
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Where can you visit it?
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The impact is that it has on some people in the art historical context.
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Let's begin.
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The artists,
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the two artists that created a robot are soon young and paying you.
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There are two of china's most controversial
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artists dealing with issues of perception,
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death and the human condition.
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I was also curious where the idea came from.
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It turns out the idea to use a robot
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came from the artist's initial wish to test what could
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possibly replace an artist will in making a work
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and how could they do so with the machine.
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Collaborating with two engineers,
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son Yuan and Pendulum designed a series of 32 movements for a machine to perform.
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Moving on to my next point, what is robot actually is here.
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I present you the seven most important parts of the robot.
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First we have a rubber square gym,
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then the robotic arm body,
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the form attachments raised wooden platforms with white waterproof coating,
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a polycarbonate barrier and the red liquid.
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Next you're probably wondering how this robot actually works.
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So I hear attached a youtube video for you to watch the robot in action.
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Next I'm going to talk about where can you visit it?
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You could visit the robot at the Guggenheim Museum located in New York.
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The Guggenheim Museum is the museum of modern and
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contemporary art designed by Canadian American architect Frank Gehry,
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sadly, the robot stopped working in 2019. Of three years of doing it.
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After three years of doing its work
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for the run. I'm going to talk about the impact
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The robot has on humans. Why are so many people thought by this piece of art?
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On November 8,
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2021 Facebook posts about can't help myself
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was extremely popular on that platform.
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It read, I don't think any piece of art has ever emotionally affected me.
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The widest robot arm piece has affected me.
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It's called can't help myself.
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And it's a robot arm that's programmed to clean
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up the fluids that's constantly leaking out of itself.
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That looks like a never ending flow of blood.
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It has programmed dense move to make it appear to have human gestures
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At first it seemed happy and proud of his job dancing around when it had visitors.
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But three years later, it looks tired, hopeless and it's
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like any is living in a never ending cycle of constant rate,
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like trying to put itself back together
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for the entertainment of other people
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And when I found out that it had finally stopped working in 2019, essentially dying.
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I couldn't help but imagine the relief it must have felt. And so I've been here here
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and so I've been in here crying over a robot arm.
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It was programmed this way. It truly couldn't help itself and no one ever helped him.
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They just watched.
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My last point is the art historical context.
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If you're like me,
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the vicious red liquid will remind you of blood,
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but soon you on and paying you empathize that the work
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is not based on symbolism and is open to interpretation regardless,
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the image confronts us with issues surrounding what the artists
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called the pleasure and panic of anticipating the future.
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Only in the accident of a computer glitch a power failure or losing a cell phone.
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Can we realize that we are kidnapped by today's knowledge structure?
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The artists sell
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the stronger such sense of dependence feels
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they're stronger feelings of panic and
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and pleasure it brings.
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The most frightening part is that no matter how we reflect on it, it cannot be stopped
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at the same time,
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fears are exciting for the knowledge beyond our experience is coming.
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Okay,
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In conclusion, I think that that can't help myself. Robot is a
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emotional piece of art that has personally touched me and helped
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me view the world from a different point of view.
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Thank you for your time