The Glitch Robot draws a simple, repetitive pattern—a design that would be unremarkable if executed perfectly. But perfection isn’t the point. The glitches are.
Visitors don’t just watch this installation; they interfere with it. Move the gondola. Pull out the pen. Shift the paper. Place objects in the way. Every intervention is invited, every disruption welcomed. The robot isn’t fragile, and nothing anyone can do will break it permanently.
What emerges on the paper is a record of human presence—a map of all the ways people chose to interrupt the machine’s predictable path. The drawing becomes a collaboration, though an asymmetrical one: the robot provides the baseline pattern, and you provide the surprise.
The Glitch Robot was first exhibited as part of the exhibition, Glitches, Blips, and Bugs by Vienna Contemporary Art Space in Vienna in summer of 2025.