The Robot That Changed My Life

Alongside metallic saviors and robotic monsters, in the '80s films there were also other possibilities, sensitive, delicate robotic creatures, who tried to tell us in every way – we are not the tools of destruction you imagine us to be.

Čapek’s Scifi vision reflects the politics of his turbulent time and we're experiencing the fallout of those violent upheavals to this day.

Already in the 1960s, the first chatbot program Eliza exposed the possibility of human susceptibility to artificial empathy. Studying the history and code of Eliza opened up new realms of artistic creation.

Alongside metallic saviors and robotic monsters, in the '80s films there were also other possibilities, sensitive, delicate robotic creatures, who tried to tell us in every way – we are not the tools of destruction you imagine us to be.

Cyborg in search of a heart appeared in the famous masterpiece from the early 20th century - a flashing red light that we have all missed in the last hundred and twenty years