Do NodeBots Dream with Electric Paint?

Can a robot be an artist?

Talk given at NodeConf EU 2014 in Waterford, Ireland.

Demo video: http://youtu.be/rA-esSK5AYQ
Code: https://github.com/rockbot/artbot

Transcript

1. Do NodeBots Dream
   with Electric Paint?
   Brought to you by @rockbot
   https://flic.kr/p/ajcZdN
   

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2. NodeBots
   Susan Hinton
   @noopkat
   

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3. Matthew Bergman
   @fotoverite
   Matthew Bergman
   @fotoverite
   Tracy Hines
   @hackygolucky
   

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4. Let’s talk about art
   

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5. No 14 (Gray), Jackson Pollock
   

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6. Art is not what you see,
   but what you make
   others see.
   — Edgar Degas
   

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7. Art is not a handicraft,
   it is the transmission of
   feeling the artist has
   experienced.
   — Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
   

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9. Let’s Draw
   1
   Mediterranean Landscape, Pablo Picasso
   

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10. Express
    canvas
    client-side JS
    vektor
    

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11. Demo #1
    

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12. Let’s Drive
    Starry Night, Vincent Van Gogh
    

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13. Express
    canvas
    client-side JS
    vektor
    socket.io
    johnny-five
    

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14. Demo #2
    

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15. Question time
    The Waterlily Pond with the Japanese Bridge, 1899, Claude Monet
    

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16. If we draw on a
    canvas, does that
    make us artists?
    

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17. If we make ArtBot
    draw, who is the
    artist?
    

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18. When can ArtBot
    be the artist?
    

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19. 4Birth of
    an Artist
    Three Dancers, Edgar Degas
    

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20. Two Decisions
    

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21. To draw or
    not to draw?
    1
    

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22. Move or Turn?
    2
    

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24. Ready?
    

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25. 5THE DEMO OF
    ALL DEMOS
    Convergence, Jackson Pollock
    

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26. http://youtu.be/rA-esSK5AYQ
    

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28. Who is the artist now?
    

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29. … so what?
    

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30. It’s all Node
    

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32. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA04413.jpg
    

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33. We’re just getting
    started.
    

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34. Raquel Vélez
    !
    @rockbot
    http://rckbt.me
    raquel@ js.com
    !
    https://github.com/rockbot/artbot
    

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