Peter Dittme, an artist based at Berlin, has been working on the "Amme" project for more than 14 years. Last year the fifth version, among others, was made in collaboration with 32 students of the FH Esslingen.
The AMME_5 is an object about 20 meters long, made of steel, glass and lots of technology. It should enable the communication between man and machine, to take up our relation with the computer.
The people communicate with the Amme directly via the computer monitor and keyboard. The ultimate response of the Amme is the spillage of a glass of milk. A robotic arm, which moves on a guide rail, spills the milk with a grip mechanism. The Amme fills the glass anew and cleans the desktop fully automatically. Visitors of the numerous exhibitions have already sought to make contact with the Amme. Thus altogether 10,000 pages of conversations have been recorded on its six writing desks in the past years.
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