Hebocon Reloaded / Ars Electronica create your world (AT)
The goal of this year’s Hebocon Reloaded Open Lab is to build your own low-tech robot as an “alter ego” out of various materials. The end result is a great challenge event where no winner*s are crowned, but the event itself celebrates the coming together and collaborative creative activity of festival-goers, artists, and project partners. You can invest as much time as you need to create your low-tech Heboian robot.
According to Japanese tradition, a Hebocon is a sumo match for low-tech robots and a wrestling match of technical dilettantes. What is meant by this? The word “Hebocon” is derived from the Japanese word “Heboi” – a term that describes something that is technically poor or of low quality. Consequently, a Hebocon is a competition in which poor, simple robots, most of which can barely move, come together on the battlefield and engage in weird, fun fights. A Hebocon celebrates “heboiness,” or mistakes and the people behind them. It’s about fun, learning, creative thinking, building, and watching the robots fight each other together.
Photo: tom mesic
Hebocon Reloaded / Ars Electronica create your world (AT)
The goal of this year’s Hebocon Reloaded Open Lab is to build your own low-tech robot as an “alter ego” out of various materials. The end result is a great challenge event where no winner*s are crowned, but the event itself celebrates the coming together and collaborative creative activity of festival-goers, artists, and project partners. You can invest as much time as you need to create your low-tech Heboian robot.
According to Japanese tradition, a Hebocon is a sumo match for low-tech robots and a wrestling match of technical dilettantes. What is meant by this? The word “Hebocon” is derived from the Japanese word “Heboi” – a term that describes something that is technically poor or of low quality. Consequently, a Hebocon is a competition in which poor, simple robots, most of which can barely move, come together on the battlefield and engage in weird, fun fights. A Hebocon celebrates “heboiness,” or mistakes and the people behind them. It’s about fun, learning, creative thinking, building, and watching the robots fight each other together.
Photo: tom mesic