{"id":245,"date":"2008-09-19T14:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=245"},"modified":"2008-09-19T14:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T14:07:00","slug":"robotic-calligraphy-an-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/robotic-calligraphy-an-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Robotic Calligraphy: An Oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SNPJZ1I6A5I\/AAAAAAAAAmw\/_WgAt_FJoi4\/s1600-h\/09_18_robotlab.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/SNPJZ1I6A5I\/AAAAAAAAAmw\/_WgAt_FJoi4\/s200\/09_18_robotlab.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247759436415107986\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Although I&#8217;ve seen it before, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve posted about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotlab.de\/bios\/bible_engl.htm\">The Bible Scribe,<\/a> a 2007 installation\/project by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robotlab.de\/index_engl.htm\">robotlab<\/a>. The installation itself addresses much larger issues, but the discussion I&#8217;ve seen about the project has mostly turned on whether the robotic writing is calligraphy or not. (I&#8217;ll spare you the suspense: it&#8217;s not.)<\/p>\n<p>A poster on the <a href=\"http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Ornamental_Penmanship\/\">Ornamental Penmanship<\/a> list this week claims that because of its precise, beautiful and voluminous work, the robot should be granted Master Penman status. Of course not. The robot is a masterpiece of engineering, but its work is not penmanship and it&#8217;s not calligraphy. It&#8217;s printing &#8212; an unusual and interesting form of printing, but printing nonetheless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;ve seen it before, I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve posted about The Bible Scribe, a 2007 installation\/project by robotlab. The installation itself addresses much larger issues, but the discussion I&#8217;ve seen about the project has mostly turned on whether the robotic writing is calligraphy or not. (I&#8217;ll spare you the suspense: it&#8217;s not.) A poster &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/19\/robotic-calligraphy-an-oxymoron\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robotic Calligraphy: An Oxymoron&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-3X","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}