Pittsburgh famously produced Andy Warhol. The icon regularly revisited his hometown to pay homage, as the city served as a major source of inspiration for his work.
Another artist has turned the famous Pennsylvania city into her playground.
Artist Agnieszka Pilat today started a residency in Pittsburgh with Agility Robotics, where she is teaching the company’s robots how to paint and incorporating them in a San Francisco show scheduled for October. She has particularly taken a liking to DIGIT, a humanoid robot with incredible balance and movement abilities.
“This is the era of the new, intelligent machine,” says Agnieszka. “The works created by DIGIT are full of mistakes. This innocence in mark-making gives them a sense of spontaneity, like children playing with crayons.”
Agnieszka has famously created artwork with Boston Dynamics’ SPOT robot. But the robots at Agility are an entirely different breed of creatures, and offer unlimited possibilities to create art. With SPOT, a robotic arm held paint brushes and painted abstractions at Agnieszka’s command. DIGIT, on the other hand, can paint more refined and complete works.
Watch DIGIT paint here
Agnieszka Pilat Bio:
Polish born artist, Agnieszka Pilat studied painting and illustration at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. She is an award-winning artist and her works can be found in public and private collections in the United States, Poland, and Canada. Pilat currently lives and maintains a full time studio in San Francisco and is represented by numerous galleries throughout the United States and has exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art.
