(image via)

Today at Fleshbot I blogged about the upcoming porn and technology conference here in SF, Arse Elektronika — read the post! (Yay, I’m back in action!) Pertinent details for Arse right now are: get tickets before they sell out, register as press *now* if you want to cover it (the press list is getting impressive), and set aside the weekend of October 5-7 for talks and panels from a whole lot of futurists and thinkers, and machine demos + interactive installations aplenty — not your typical porn con. At all.

* Also, check out the short Wired article about artist/filmmaker Michael Sullivan’s new work, The Sex Life of Robots (article has many more incredible images of his work). “Like all of his robots, these models have articulated joints and eyeballs that can be rotated. It takes Sullivan a “couple of days” to build each robot, he says. After he finishes the sculpting process, he finishes up with a layer of paint (black enamel or primer), followed by red oxide or orange washes, and a light buffing adds highlights.” Some of Sullivan’s dioramas will be on display through spring 2008 (opened this week) at Manhattan’s Museum of Sex. The (very transgressive, explicit) video sample is here, unfortunately with embedding disabled by the artist or I’d save you an extra click. Of course, YouTube pulled the clip — art or porn, anyone? If someone finds it linked from another site, ping me and I’ll update with the artist’s video — which deserves to be seen, even if simply behind an “18 or over” age check page.

Update: Video updates on The Sex Life of Robots and more info is here, at our darling Fleshbot.