In 2020 I’ve started a video project that documents my consistent but hopeless attempts to restore my castrated rabbit\u2019s libido. So far, the project included interviews with veterinarians and zoologists and the creation of a sculptural sex doll for the rabbit. My plans for the video are to document two more steps in this bizarre pursuit – creating a robot that will attempt to “communicate” with my rabbit, and the production of a customized VR headset for him, offering a seductive VR experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Throughout the video, it is nor clear what is true and what is fiction, and if the rabbit is indeed the subject of this experiment; an experiment which can be seen as equally deranged as castrating a rabbit in the first place. The puzzling imagery and amorphous narrative are submerged in a tragic moment of libidinal loss, and raise questions regarding the liability of art, the probity of cinema and human-animal relations. https:\/\/youtu.be\/TaQUyW-Ppto<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Fabrication and technological aspects: <\/p>\n\n\n\n It is clear to me that the robot should be made (partly or fully) out of silicone rubber – similarly to the “sex doll” – as silicone rubber often signifies skin and has a bodily organic quality to it, as well as a sexual connotation. It also allows for hair\/fur punching, which is an important component of the aesthetics I would like to achieve https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PqwtyqX-jl8<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Initially, I was thinking about an Arduino-powered robot, half-hard, and half-soft, that incorporates a motion detection sensor, that then causes the robot to move in the direction of the motion it has detected and sets off an audio player and smell-inducing sensors. However, after I came across the example of the soft robot developed by Harvard’s Whitesides Research Group https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZrrM-QZ-xDI<\/a> through the course, my vision of the robot has started to shift. https:\/\/gmwgroup.harvard.edu\/files\/gmwgroup\/files\/1135.pdf<\/a> I wonder if it’s possible to create a soft robot that has a similar locomotion method, except there is a way to change the direction of its movement in real-time while moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Related art project: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Danger, Squirrel Nutkin! <\/em>(2009) by Ian Ingram http:\/\/www.art.cmu.edu\/news\/alumni-news\/5-questions-for-ian-ingram-mfa-10\/ <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n https:\/\/vimeo.com\/45975282<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 2020 I’ve started a video project that documents my consistent but hopeless attempts to restore my castrated rabbit\u2019s libido. So far, the project included interviews with veterinarians and zoologists and the creation of a sculptural sex doll for the rabbit. My plans for the video are to document two more steps in this bizarre
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