How This Artist Used Rolls-Royce Car Paint Data to Explore Man’s Role in Automation

Robb Report

 

By Brian Hood

Sussex, UK — How will humans and robots work together in the future? That’s a question Rolls-Royce and multi-media artist Refik Anadol appear to address in a new work of art that explores the intersections of data, robotics and human sensibility.

Created specifically for the Rolls-Royce Art Programme, the digital piece, titled Art of Perfection: Data Painting, uses an LED “canvas” to display a unique painting created using data sets obtained directly from the automaker’s Surface Finish Center. That data represents the color—along with the programmed robotic movement required to apply it—used to paint each Rolls-Royce that has rolled off the line at the company’s Goodwood production facility in England over the past 10 years….


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