Participants: Krisztian Gergely, Andras Marton Juhasz, Eduard Sik

[POP] or "Power of Play" is a self-reacting installation where custom built robotized desk lamps are playing with a ball. Every movement of each robot and also the game itself is to be learned through evolutional algorithms. This is a physical visualization of natural learning processes shown by anthropomorphic devices.

Playing takes such a big role in peoples life... " At the beach, we are all children. As we gambol in the shallow surf and toss in the deeper waves, we feel the freedom of helplessness and the satisfaction of improvising defenses. Unburdened by consciousness or self-consciousness, we are caught in the moment. Suffused with pleasure, we exult in the sheer lightness of being." - Psychology Today

There is a camera on the ceiling tracking a beach-ball connected to the same computer as the robot lamps. An evolution algorithm based software is trying to find out what to do. The goal of the software is to keep the ball in a dynamic movement.