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ROBOT / 2001
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Prints on paper: Portraits | | Medium: | Chromogenic color print | | Size (inches): | 20 x 20 | | Size (mm): | 508 x 508 | | Edition size: | 25 | | Catalog #: | PP_040 | | Description: | From an edition of 25.Signed, titled, date, copyright, edition in magic ink on the reverse /Aside from the numbered edition of 5 artist's proofs and 2 printer's proofs. See Catalog #PC_038/ Robot for more details.
When we robots are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
It is sad. One half of the world does not believe in God, and the other half does not believe in me.
I llike to do all the talking myself. It saves time and prevents arguments.
-O.W and his robot friend
SYLLABICATION: ro·bot
NOUN: 1. A mechanical device that sometimes resembles a human and is capable of performing a variety of often complex human tasks on command or by being programmed in advance. 2. A machine or device that operates automatically or by remote control. 3. A person who works mechanically without original thought, especially one who responds automatically to the commands of others.
WORD HISTORY: Robot is a word that is both a coinage by an individual person and a borrowing. It has been in English since 1923 when the Czech writer Karel Capek's play R.U.R. was translated into English and presented in London and New York. R.U.R., published in 1921, is an abbreviation of Rossum's Universal Robots; robot itself comes from Czech robota, “servitude, forced labor,” from rab, “slave.” The Slavic root behind robota is orb–, from the Indo-European root *orbh–, referring to separation from one's group or passing out of one sphere of ownership into another. This seems to be the sense that binds together its somewhat diverse group of derivatives, which includes Greek orphanos, “orphan,” Latin orbus, “orphaned,” and German Erbe, “inheritance,” in addition to the Slavic word for slave mentioned above. Czech robota is also similar to another German derivative of this root, namely Arbeit, “work” (its Middle High German form arabeit is even more like the Czech word). Arbeit may be descended from a word that meant “slave labor,” and later generalized to just “labor.”
-The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
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