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In the last article on challenges combined to Roboexotica, Magnus Wurzer will talk about two problems connected to arranging the festival.

A clip about the annual event Roboexotica, the worldwide leading festival for Cocktail-Robotics, organized by the Austrian artist groups Shifz, monochrom and the Bureau für Philosophie.

Money:
"I would say, first, money: there's always too many ideas, too many things to do, for the money we can raise. Like, for the last nine-ten years we mainly funded the event by money from the city government, the art council of the City, which is a very modest amount. So very soon we must convert our half-assed attempts to get sponsoring into something real. But we've always managed somehow to put on the next Roboexotica, even without much money. There's just too much enthusiasm in everybody involved to not make it happen, I would say. So the challenge money, it's a big challenge, but it's manageable I would say".

Locations:
"Another challenge that we've faced in the last two years was to find a location. Because like in 2009, the place we used in 2009, just wasn't there the next year, so we needed to look for another place. Just at the right point in time, another location popped up, which fit pretty nicely for last year's event. And for reasons this isn't available this year. So, just two weeks ago we found our location that's going to be a perfect match, I think, again. Somehow things fall into face so often, with cocktailrobotics it seems we are blessed by the gods of strong spirits".

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[image source: flickr user: eSeL.at]
[source: Vive Les Robots!]