Towards a Chronology of Robotic Art

The following must be understood as an initial attempt to compute a chronology of robotic art, which will inevitably suffer from omissions and gaps not least that it currently only goes up to 1996. Covering over 40 years, the explorations of the artists’ works listed here start to map an as yet relatively unknown territory of art making. The works and small number of exhibitions included so far are acknowledged for the contribution they make as robotic, cybernetic or telepresential artworks. The issues raised by such works sets them apart from sculpture and the formal problems conventionally associated with it. However, as it stands the chronology is best regarded as a work in progress and suggestions for additional works to be included are invited (please email to the author at ekac@artic.edu).