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The Violin Player

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When I was a teenager I read all of Asimov books. The ones about robotics particularly fascinated me. Concepts about the fuzzy border that can be established between sufficiently advanced humanoid robots and humanity are very intriguing. Books like "Bicentennial Man" or "I, Robot" are great examples of this.

Recently I watched "I, Robot" for the 3rd or 4th time (the movie with Will Smith). While I was watching it I was thinking what other things would those robots be capable of doing. I thought that maybe they could also play musical instruments. Then I thought about one of these robots that would gradually develop the "soul" necessary to take the musical execution one step further, towards sublime, as opposed to the others who would only play it mechanically only. That robot would be special, he might have desires for freedom to share his music with everyone and maybe his owner would have to lock him up, in a secluded place somewhere, where the owner would have the selfish privilege of being the only one listening him play, whenever he wanted. Then other thoughts also crossed my mind, like can a robot produce art? Does art exist if it's not shared? Would the robot want to play if no one was there to listen to him? Would a human feel sorry for this situation even knowing it was only a machine? Anyway, it was around these and other thoughts that this image was born. I hope you enjoy.

Made in Vue, with a little help from Poser and Zbrush.
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Does art exist if it's not shared? If it Does exist then is Invisibility Art?