(Supported by the Creative Robotics Lab and National Facility of HRI Research at UNSW Art & Design)
Robot, Comb, Vision Pro
2025 年在悉尼创作的新版本延续了对“梳头”这一行为的艺术探索。不同于上一个版本所聚 焦的权力关系，这一版更强调梳头作为一种亲密行为的意义。作品邀请观众参与:观众将坐 在装置前，由机械臂为其梳理头发。这一机械臂并非自主动作，而是由一位远程操作者通过 手臂的同步运动实时控制。那么，观众的头发究竟是被梳头机梳理的，还是被这位远在异地 的操作者所梳理的呢?
“距离”在此作品中具有特别的意义——操作者位于中国上海，通过网络控制远在悉尼的梳头 机，完成一次“越洋梳头”。《梳头机 2025》探究的是:当人与人之间相隔万里，本应体现亲 密的互动还能保持其亲密的属性吗?当原本的人际行为被技术中介-梳头机-所转译，这一行 为的性质是否随之改变?
Comb Machine: Almost Intimate, created in Sydney in 2025, continues the exploration of the act of hair combing. Unlike the previous iteration, which focused on power dynamics, this version places greater emphasis on the intimate meaning embedded in the gesture of hair combing.
The work invites audience participation: viewers can experience having their hair combed by a robot arm. This robot arm does not act autonomously—it is remotely controlled in real time by a human operator, whose own wrist and hand movements are mirrored by the machine. This gives rise to a subtle question: is it the machine that is combing the participant’s hair, or is it the distant operator?
In this piece, distance carries particular significance. The operator is located in Shanghai, China, and controls the combing machine in Sydney via a real-time connection, performing an act of “overseas combing.” Comb Machine 2025 asks: When people are separated by great distances, can an interaction that would typically signify closeness still retain its intimacy? When a fundamentally interpersonal gesture is mediated—translated—through a robotic interface, does its nature change?
Official Images
Snapshot from the documentation video
Exhibition view at Redbase Gallery, Sydney
Documentation Video