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who is your Enemy
Zhiping Bian, Xinling Luo
Robotic multimedia installation
2019
Bionic ultrasonic radar detection, SLAM system, RPS laser positioning, etc., which were originally used as military navigation technology, have entered the home environment and became the core technology of robot vacuums—which are generally considered to be safe and harmless. The violent nature rooted in its technology has always been around when the robot was doing home cleaning, and it has become a lingering war ghost.
By using wireless positioning system, in this installation, the location data of robot vacuums is synced to their avatars in real-time. Therefore, while the robot vacuums perform the cleaning task, the avatars controlled by the robot vacuums patroll on the virtual battleground built by the artist based on the satellite map of the real battlefield (their native environments), detecting, colliding, cleaning and expelling each other.
Who is your enemy? Is it the pet hair in the living room, or the enemy tank in Afghanistan battlefield? Perhaps robot vacuums are often confused by the drastic transformation of their identities.
模型定位、无线载波、激光巡航等一开始用作军事勘探的技术从战场上退役，于家庭环境中成为扫地机器人的核心科技。因此，当机器人在进行家居清洁时，关于战争的遗存一直伴随在左右，扫地机器人的环境定位技术成为了挥之不去的战争幽灵。
本作品构建的虚拟环境中，机器人的虚拟替身巡弋于各个战场——它们的原生环境——之间，互相探测、碰撞、清扫与驱逐着。
谁是你的敌人？是客厅中的宠物毛发，还是朝韩边境中埋伏的地雷，还是自己和同类？也许扫地机器人时常会在身份的剧烈位移中对此感到混淆不清。
