Works
Robot Theatre
R.U.R.
Robotaria
Robotarium SP
Insect Robots
Robotarium X
Robot Art
ISU
RAP
Tara
ArtSBot
LBot
Swarm Paintings
Erased series
Several works
Other art projects
DADA 2.0
iSculpture
GPS Paintings
Voronoi Paintings
Swarm Sculptures
RGB Paintings
Architecture
Bridge
Auditorium
AHETA head-office
Art Center
Design
Portable Gardens
Antennae 2009
An interview.
The new species 2007
Robots are a new kind of life born to share the planet with us.
Robot Zoo 2007
My painting robots generate art works based on emergence. The essential of those creations is based on the machine own interpretation of the world and not on its human description.
The poor zoid 2007
Natural and artificial evolution has something in common: the environment.
Robot Art 2007
My painting robots generate art works based on emergence. The essential of those creations is based on the machine own interpretation of the world and not on its human description.
A new art paradigm 2007
Out of the museums and art galleries many works are totally irrelevant and reduced to their real condition of garbage.
A reboot is required.
A brief history of robotics 2007
Robotics must be seen as an amplification of life: a new kind of species born from a postnature context in order to stimulate, expand and enhance the available intelligence on the planet.
Robot Art: A New Kind of Art 2007
To "take the human factor out of the loop" is a central topic if one intends to produce true machine creativity.
A New Kind of Art: The Robotic Action Painter 2007
In the context of robotics RAP [Robotic Action Painter] demonstrates that machine creativity can be achieved by means of randomness, stigmergy and chromotaxis.
The End Of Art As We Know It 2005
The Painting Robots were created to paint. Not my paintings but their own paintings. Such an objective may seem simple but in fact it adresses some of the most critical ideas on art, robotics and artificial intelligence.
Bioart 2005
with Henrique Garcia Pereira
Bioart is a new kind of biological inspired art that campaigns for the emergence of a new artificial, dynamic and self-sustainable Nature.
A new kind of art: the painting robots 2005
with Henrique Garcia Pereira
The painting robots are artificial ‘organisms’ able to create their own art forms. They are equipped with environmental awareness and a small brain that runs algorithms based on simple rules. The resulting paintings are not predetermined, emerging rather from the combined effects of randomness and stigmergy, that is, indirect communication trough the environment.
Addressing Collective Robotics in Artistic Terms
Collective Robotics has been applied in the last decade in a variety of industrial-military fields. As opposed to this type of applications, it is put forward here a novel approach driven by the unproposeness that is characteristic of the artistic realm.
A True unmanned art [Paper for Consciousness Reframed, Beijing], 2004
with Henrique Garcia Pereira
A true unmanned art depends on the capacity to produce mechanical 'organisms' able to create their own art. This can be achieved by building devices with some kind of environmental awareness that run algorithms based on simple rules. The art produced is not predetermined in any manner, resulting rather from randomness and stigmergy, that is, indirect communication between multiple agents trough the environment. To witness the construction of a painting by autonomous robots represents for the human viewer an experience of global consciousness.
SYMBIOTIC ART recombining art, science and philosophy 2004
with Henrique Garcia Pereira
This is the first experiment of collective robotics in the artistic realm.
Making artists [Published in Exit Express, Madrid], 2004
Making artists it’s much more fun than just making art.
Symbiotic Art Manifesto [Making the Artists that make the Art], 2004
Leonel Moura with Henrique Garcia Pereira
Trails, Ants and Anarchy 2002
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Stigmergy 2002
An interview with Social Fiction
Swarm Paintings - Non-human art 2001
The main objective of an artificial art is to overcome the anthropocentric bias.
Instant Paintings 2001
Choose randomly three pre-existing images of art works and mix them in the RGB channels. The result is an instant painting.
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