Media Companion List
for Motion/Emotion: Exploring Affect from Automata to Robots
When you think of robots does a specific character come to mind? Perhaps you think of Hal 9000? R2D2? Wall-E? Consider how our understanding of robots has been shaped by our media culture.
Below is a list of robot depictions in pop culture through the decades, favorites of the Barry Art Museum staff. Explore the list of books, movies, television shows, video games, & music videos as an accompaniment to Motion/Emotion: Exploring Affect from Automata to Robots.
Lambert catalog featuring a crying girl automaton, ca. 1880s-1890s, reprinted in Christian Bailly, Automata: The Golden Age, 1848-1914 (London: Robert Hale, 2003).
Movie still from Disney's Wall-E
Joseph Morris, Immanence, 2012/2016
Books:
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan
The Mother Code by Carole Stivers
The AI Who Loved Me by Alyssa Cole
The American Robot: A Cultural History by Dustin Abnet
Automata: The Golden Age by Christian Bailly
Romantic Automata Exhibitions, Figures, Organisms published by Bucknell University Press
Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves by Alexis M. Elder
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination by Minsoo Kang
Attention Loop: A Sculptor’s Reverie on the Coexistence of Substance and Spirit by Elizabeth King
Hello, Robot: Design between Human and Machine by Mateo Kries
Television:
The Jetsons, 1962
Transformers, 1984
Mega Man, 1987
Star Trek: The Next Generation, 1993
Jimmy Neutron, 2001
Futurama, 'Obsoletely Fabulous', 2003
South Park 'Awesome-o', 2004
Super Monkey Robot Team Hyper Force Go!, 2004
Mr. Bean, 'The Robot', 2006
World of Dance, 'The Robot', 2016
The Tonight Show, Showbotics, 'Meet Sophia', 2017
Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures, 'Tour of Tokyo', 2019
Movies:
Metropolis, 1927
The Day the Earth Stood Still, 1951
Forbidden Planet, 1956
2001: A Space Oddessy, 1968
Silent Running, 1972
The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, 1981
The Terminator, 1984
Lost in Space, 1998
Inspector Gadget, 1999
Bicentennial Man, 1999
The Iron Giant, 1999
Rugrats Go to Paris, 2000
I, Robot, 2004
The Stepford Wives, 2004
Robots, 2005
Wall-E, 2008
Her, 2013
Big Hero 6, 2014
Ex-Machina, 2014
Chappie, 2015
still from "Ghost Train' by the Gorillaz
Music Videos:
All is Full of Love by Bjork, 1997
Intergalactic by The Beastie Boys, 1998
Ghost Train by The Gorillaz, 1999
Robot Rock by Daft Punk, 2005
Many Moons by Janelle Monae, 2008
Light it Up by Major Lazer, 2016
Video Games:
Fallout 4, 2014
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, 2016
Detroit: Becoming Human, 2018
CyberPunk 2077, 2020
from Fallout 4
from Fallout 4
from Five Nights at Freddy's