description: This video is documentation of the Andy Warhol robot that was designed by Alvaro Villa shortly before Warhol’s death for use in a stage show titled Andy Warhol: A No Man Show based on Warhol’s books, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) and Exposures. Production of the robot was cancelled after Warhol’s death.
The robot is now twenty years old and its outdated technology puts it between the realms of uncanny and absurd. The video documents Alvaro Villa, the inventor, demonstrating all of the features of the robot. Warhol’s muffled pre-recorded “I don’t know” responses take the robot out of the realm of an animatronic Chucky Cheese to a séance with the dead.
