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Figure 2.1 Kiru Interacting with Whitney Visitors. Kiru played the role of a "cultural curmudgeon," interacting with visitors and contextualizing the exhibition through its comments on issues of "mapping" physical and virtual space and physical/virtual identity. While Kiru was in the autonomous mode, he had five different personalities, all present at once: Wizard, Librarian of Juxtapositions, Philosopher, Preacher and Storyteller. The sixth personality was left to visitors to define through the robot’s speech, camera movements and motion. They created the camouflage and made Kiru a new persona; two minutes at a time. 5
