| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-06-26T12:30:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-06-26T12:30:10Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://95.216.75.113:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/302 | |
| dc.description | This text was presented at REFRESH! THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE HISTORIES OF ART, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - September 28 - 0ct 1, as a peer-reviewed scholarly work chosen for inclusion. This text may have been or will be published and/or presented elsewhere by the author. | |
| dc.type | Video | |
| dc.title | Islamic Automation A Reading of al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (1206) | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nadarajan, Gunalan | |
| dc.description.abstract | This paper would draw on the work of al-Jazari, a 13th century Islamic scholar, engineer and scientist, specifically his The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Devices, as a means to develop alternative histories and futures for robotic arts. It would be argued that the various machines developed and conceptualized by al-Jazari reflect not only an alternative perspective on automation radically different from those developed in the West but also present a range of new possibilities for contemporary explorations in robotic arts. | |
