===== Manus Et Machina ===== Engineering Design Studio (A5, 015)\\ Sunday, September 22, 2019, 9:00 am – 11:40 am ---- === Prelude === * Attendance list === Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the man of the future, the Machine Man?! Give me another 24 hours and no one will be able to tell a Machine Man from a mortal! === Rotwang, Metropolis, 1927 * Let us have a look at this scene from Metropolis (1927): In the film's most celebrated sequence Maria is lying in a horizontally cylindrical capsule with wired connections. Rotwang's laboratory is filled with beakers of liquid, dials, switches, flashes electrical circuits and other contraptions which make you think of the 30's Frankenstein films. Sparks of energy create a large ball and form into luminous glowing rings that surround the capsule, and Maria's face dissolves into the face of the android. * Preview for Tuesdays case study presentations: Movie trailers of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eogpIG53Cis&frags=pl%2Cwn|Blade Runner]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4&frags=pl%2Cwn|Blade Runner 2049]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc|Ex Machina]] * David Slade, Metalhead, Black Mirror, S04, E05 (2017) ⇒ [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalhead_(Black_Mirror)|Wikipedia article]] * [[https://www.bostondynamics.com|Boston Dynamics]] * James Cameron, //Terminator//, 1984 === Overture: Circle of Truth === Checking out latest concepts and the actual prototype version ---- === Prelude === === Overture === Project Colloquium and discussion…