Madrid’s Colección SOLO is now home to a robot dog called A.I.C.C.A. who can write critiques of artworks and poop them out on paper.
The museum’s resident art critic looks like a cute, plush terrier and has a camera in one eye. It is mounted on an electric platform to move around the gallery.
Named A.I.C.C.A., or ‘Artificially Intelligent Critical Canine’, the bot combines retro aesthetics with complex algorithms, ChatGPT and humour.
Invented by German artist and AI art pioneer Mario Klingemann, the canine is billed as a performative sculpture that will travel to art fairs and shows across the world.
In a video, Klingemann said A.I.C.C.A. can “move around, look at the art, and whenever some work catches its attention, it will analyse it and then produce an art critique, which it poops out”.
A.I.C.C.A. will share its art reviews on Twitter. On 8 June, it wrote: “Every artwork deserves to be judged for what it is, not by comparison with what it could have been.”
AI dog bot by artist Mario Klingemann
“If you need to explain someone at the dinner table what I do, remember the phrase ‘it prints the critique under its tail’,” it added.
The development of A.I.C.C.A. was made possible through Colección SOLO‘s Onkaos initiative, which supports artistic creations through new technologies.
Earlier this year, Dubai’s Museum of the Future introduced a robotic dog that can be seen roaming the lobby, welcoming and interacting with visitors.
The robot canine joins the museum’s growing robot community, including an AI-powered humanoid bot named Ameca. The institution is also home to Bob the robot barista, and a robotic flying penguin and jellyfish.
Last year, the UK’s Blenheim Palace teamed up with the Oxford Robotics Institute (ORI) and Oxford Biology to test a robot dog monitoring the impact of climate change.
Lead image credit: A.I.C.C.A., 2023, Mario Klingemann © courtesy of Onkaos
