THE MAGIC ROBOT

John Butler

 

FILE SÃO PAULO 2026: Inter-creativity – Art and Technology – Full-length
Electronic Language International Festival

 

The Magic Robot – England

A tale of technological unemployment, only this time it’s the robots who are losing their jobs.

Loosely based on Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’, the Magic Robot traverses the worlds of bonded labour, industrial espionage, fine art and spirituality in his search for ‘Self‘. The Magic Robot is a work of Bureaucratic Science Fiction, confirming that we are living in a spreadsheet, not a simulation.

BIO

Studied Drawing & Painting and Electronic Imaging at Duncan of Jordanstone College of art, Dundee.

Lives and works in Glasgow as 3D animator. His personal work makes extensive use of CGI, motion capture, and, lately, ‘Interrogative Fashion’.

Has exhibited and screened media art work extensively in the UK and abroad, and has produced work for broadcast in UK for BBC2 and Channel 4.