Baby robots in gestation...

Through this giant incubator in which baby robots are in gestation, artist France Cadet wonders about a possible future where machines would be able to reproduce on their own, freed from human beings!

Thanks to an augmented reality animation we can see a robotic fetus at various stages of its embryonic development. Like an organic cell division, the initial tetrahedron splits into an increasingly precise polygon mesh, resulting in the functional prenatal creature.

In order to ensure its existence, this specie of humanoid robot opted, not for immortality, but rather for an artificial ectogenesis (pregnancy outside the body), a synthetic poly-gonad reproduction, imitating natural embryogenesis.

Exhibition view "Ex-Machina: Man, machine and robots" Departementale Library, Marseille, FR, 2023

Exhibition view "Ex-Machina: Man, machine and robots" Departementale Library, Marseille, FR, 2023

Exhibition view of the 5x2m wall set up in the building of the Art Center le Centre, Vierzon, 2023

Exhibition view of the 5x2m wall set up in the building of the Art Center le Centre, Vierzon, 2023

Presentation of « Poly-gonad ectogenesis 2.0 »
a 5x2m augmented reality artwork created for the building of the art Center Le Centre in Vierzon, FR
Excerpt from the interview (90s)
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« Poly-gonad ectogenesis 2.0 » enters the art collection of the art Center Le Centre in Vierzon, FR