The Hosts: A Masquerade Of Improvising Automatons, Performance Space, 2009.

The Hosts extends Wade Marynowsky’s development of custom-built robotics and interactive, performative media. In this installation, Marynowsky explores roboticist Masahiro Mori’s theory outlined in The Uncanny Valley (1970), which suggests that in designing humanoid robots one should not aim for total human likeness, but for an alternative to an uncanny appearance.

Media artist/artistic director; Wade Marynowsky, Electrical engineer; Aras Vaichas, Programmer; Jeremy Apthorp, Lighting; Mirabelle Wouters Costume; Sally Jackson, Camera; John Douglas, Edit; Sumugan Sivanesan.

Catalogue Essay by Bec Dean
Realtime review by Dan Mackinlay.