Curatorial premise
Robots can wear clothes to fit new contexts and adapt to new tasks. Because robots are inherently not gendered, dressing them creates an opportunity to challenge inherited assumptions rather than reproduce them.
Art practice / Robot Fashion Show
The Workwear of Tomorrow
A robot fashion show challenging gender roles through workwear, bringing artists together to consider physical, industrial, domestic, and emotional labor through robot dress.
The exhibition
The show brought together projects that approached physical, industrial, domestic, and emotional labor-along with sustainability, access, and power-from distinct perspectives.
Setting a precedent
How robots are dressed today can establish conventions for the future. The exhibition treats clothing as both a functional interface and a cultural signal, asking designers to be deliberate about the roles they make visible.
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