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Figure 7.17.
Photo of the colloquy of mobiles. source: g. Pask, “a comment, a case
history and a Plan,” in J. reichardt (ed.),
Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas
(greenwich,
ct: New york graphics society, 1971), 96, fig. 40.
Like all of Pask's creations, the Colloquy was a baroque assemblage.
Perhaps the best way to think of it is as a sophisticated variant of Walter's
tortoises.
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As we saw in chapter 3, the tortoises were mobile, phototropic
robots which in combination engaged in complex mating dances, and just
the same can be said of the components of the Colloquy. Pask's robots were,
in one way, somewhat less mobile than Walter's. As shown schematically in
figure 7.18, the Colloquy consisted of five robots, three designated “female”
