“BOT I” is a radical monologic mash-up of autobiographical material from Pilar’s childhood in a computing family and her passions for and against technology, cut in and through the texts of Samuel Beckett’s “Not I” and Isaac Asimov’s I Robot. This article includes the script of the performance Pilar presented at the Radical Philosophy Association Conference in Eugene, Oregon on November 13, 2010 and images from a 2011 performance. Ruthless in its refusal of all gentility and tact, and insistent in its feminist critique, Pilar’s script reveals the blind spots that capitalist techno-culture reserves for ethics and the body.
Articles by Praba Pilar
\Praba Pilar is a Bay Area/Colombian performance artist, technologist, and cultural theorist exploring the intersections of emerging technologies, economics, and the environment through performances, installations, street theatre, writing, and digital works. Her wildly diverse work has been presented nationally and internationally at museums, galleries, universities, performance festivals, public streets, and radio airwaves. She has been written about in numerous publications, and honored with multiple awards, including the Creative Capital and the Creative Work Fund. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Performance Studies at the University of California, Davis, and can be visited online at www.prabapilar.com.\