WATSCHENDISKURS ("Face-slapping discourse")

WATSCHENDISKURS, or "face-slapping discource" is another project by Uli Winters, one of the artists behind the previously discussed Byte. This time Winters is collaborating with Frank Fietzek on a project for Art Bots, "an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robot". Here's the story:

"The two puppets of WATSCHENDISKURS ("Face-slapping discourse") are involved in a discussion about language theory. Like in many a real life discussion they pick their phrases randomly from a pool of more or less witty statements on the topic of language including Wittgenstein-Quotes and Russian weather proverbs. From time to time this discussion gets pretty emotional, and at a point where words no longer seem to be the right tool of convincing the other one, the frog and the cat lose their temper. A slap in the face stops the opponent and gives way for another intellectual excursus about the different layers of speech."

According to the artists, WATSCHENDISKURS is "controlled by microcontrolers, connected to a Director-program."