Robophilia and Device Art in Japan

Abstract

The peculiar characteristics of artistic creation in Japan and some Asian countries, in industrial developments in the field of engineering, computing, AI and robotics, and the existence of a culture of manga together with the idea of construction of prototypes from a certain artisticcommercial approach, raise the need to deal in depth with the development of robotic art in Japan, especially as a historical reference and as a vision of the future. The permeability between art and design, so complexly posited in the West, does not suffer that categorical distinction in Japan, where the concept of Device Art opens the possibilities of aesthetic experimentation with new technologies towards industrial productions