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If you’ve read absolutely nothing about CES this year, this may come as news: There are robot pole dancers in Las Vegas this week.
Walker conceived of the robot dancers as a commentary on voyeurism and the surveillance state. The robots’ heads are CCTV security cameras. Most artists don’t get seed funding or stock options, so to make ends meet Walker rents the robots out for money. When the Sapphire Gentlemen’s Club wanted to install them during CES, he agreed.
He feels a bit complicated about the reactions and the arena for his creations. He recently told Recode: “I didn’t build these to get involved in the sex industry. They weren’t about sex, they were about voyeurism.”
Like the best art, though, the robots have a dimensionality their creator didn’t fully intend. Accolades and controversy have followed. So, too, has a much-needed note of introspection in a frenzied week of blushing, at times blind, exuberance over technology.
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