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To his own surprise, Matt Mullican’s new body of work is vibrantly colorful. A departure and liberation of sorts, it is also his most labor-intensive work yet. Made in his Berlin studio, “August 9, 1908” consists of very large paintings involving rubbing, a technique he’s been using since the early ’80s. A first rubbing transfers the image to be painted; a second rubbing draws outlines around the painted areas with an oil stick. Below, the artist describes his painstaking process, how ...

Christian Marclay likes to play with doors. His early sculpture Armoire, 1988; the door slamming in Video Quartet, 2002; and his series of screen prints Door (The Electric Chair), 2006, are just a few examples. Here, he speaks about his latest work, Doors, 2022, a video made of snippets from various movies, and his difficulties editing it. Door after door, room after room, the 54-minute loop runs on like a rhyming game. Placed near the exit of his survey at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (curated ...

People Patted by Robot While Conversing Report Better Emotional State Written by AZoRoboticsMay 6 2021 A small study has discovered that people who were touched by a humanoid robot while talking with it later reported an improved emotional state and higher likelihood of complying with a request from the robot. Robot touch. Image Credit: Copyright ©RUB, Marquard. The findings of the study have been described by Laura Hoffmann from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Nicole C. Krämer from the ...

Credit: Copyright ©RUB, Marquard A small study found that people who were touched by a humanoid robot while conversing with it subsequently reported a better emotional state and were more likely to comply with a request from the robot. Laura Hoffmann of Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and Nicole C. Krämer of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, present these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on May 5, 2021. Interpersonal touch between humans is known to have positive effect...