The Punishment

by Filipe Vilas-Boas

2017

The Punishment

by Filipe Vilas-Boas

2017

Digital art

Cultural outreach and education

Installation

Artificial intelligence

Video art

Stage performance

Science and technology

Politics and humans rights

Digital art

Cultural outreach and education

Installation

Artificial intelligence

Video art

Stage performance

Science and technology

Politics and humans rights

Technologies are now merging at high speed, notably robotics and artificial intelligence. It raises a lot of questions about the man-machine relationship. How automated do we want our world, our body to be? How do we put ethics in robotics? Isn't it time to reinvent the school? Shall we rewrite a new social contract? At the turn of the century, interrogations related to automation are popping up in everyone’s mind. We will have to answer them collectively, if possible.

Screen, Video projector

Suitable for all audiences

from 3 to 4 minute(s)

Without dialogue

Update : 22/04/2022

The Punishment is an installation in which a robot executes a preventive punishment for its possible future disobedience. Tainted with dark humor, this dystopian anthropomorphization questions our relationship with machines and technology. (Filipe Vilas-Boas)

The Punishment, "Trop Classe" Group Show at Maif Social Club, Paris, 2020-21. (E. Richard / Maif Social Club)

The Punishment, "Trop Classe" group show at Maif Social Club, Paris, 2020-21. (E. Richard / Maif Social Club)

"I must not hurt humans" (Stokk Studio / Pavillon de Namur, Belgique)

I robot (Filipe Vilas-Boas)

I must not hurt humans (Filipe Vilas-Boas)

Ethics in robotics (Filipe Vilas-Boas)

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The Punishment is an installation in which a robot executes a preventive punishment for its possible future disobedience. A reference to Isaac Asimov’s laws of robotics.

Technologies are now merging at high speed, notably robotics and artificial intelligence. It raises a lot of questions about the man-machine relationship. Tainted with dark humor, this dystopian anthropomorphization underlines the fears that AI and robotics engenders and reactivates the myth of the creature escaping the control of its creator. How automated do we want our world, our body to be? What physical, moral and legal framework should we use? What consequences for human life? How do we put ethics in robotics? Isn't it time to reinvent the school? Shall we rewrite a new social contract? At the turn of the century, interrogations related to automation are popping up in everyone’s mind. We will have to answer them collectively, if possible.