BotJoy

A TINY (and sometimes big) ROBOT ARMY PROGRAMMED TO BRING YOU JOY, HOPE, COURAGE, INSPIRATION!
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How can art help?

Botjoy is an exploration of how art can be surprising,
delightful AND helpful. Bots are "programmed" to give you outrageous compliments, help you be brave, take the blame, inspire you, even clone you so you can get more done.

Bots come in small and sometimes large packages
The artist
Gary Hirsch is an artist, illustrator, and the co-founder of On Your Feet, a collision between business and the arts, and an early pioneer of bringing the skills and principles improvisers use on stage with businesses such as Nike, Intel, Disney, Apple, and others.

To see Gary in action take a look at his TEDx talk on the left.
He has presented at Creative Mornings, The World Domination Summit, and on the V-to-V Podcast and to many other conferences and clients.
About the Bots
What are the Bots?
The Bots are small (and sometimes, big) totemic, art objects programmed to help. They are created by me, Gary Hirsch, an artist and consultant living in Portland Oregon.

I wake up everyday thinking about how art can help and the Bots have been my vehicle for doing this in (hopefully) a delightful and surprising way.

I experiment with the Bots by making thousands painted small on the back of dominos (most recent Bot count is 37,456) , and a few painted giant on the sides of buildings. Please steal this idea and make your own.

Where the idea came from
the birth of the bots
The idea for the Bots came from a sketch I did in 2000 as a prompt (see image on the left) in a co-creativity journal. Weirdly tons of folks came back to me after receiving this drawing telling me all of the wonderful things that their invisible robot was telling them. So...
We decided to make the Bots real (not just invisible and imaginary) by painting t hem on the back of dominoes so you could carry them around in your pocket.
I started leaving Joy Bots on the streets as gifts for random strangers to find. I donated Brave Bots to children's hospitals. I paint them as big as I can in mural and street art form. To date I have made over 50,000 Bots and I am always looking for new ideas for using them to help folks that might need one.
New Project For 2018:
The CURIOSITY WALL

60 feet wide 20 feet tall. SE 17th and SE Rhine, Portland Oregon
Collaboration
What happens when ideas collide? Often magic! Here is a collaborative mural I did in London with artist Marc Craig.
Read More about the project here
Brave Bots For an Audience of 3,000

Launching Brave Bots at The World Domination Summit
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Bots By the Numbers

49,000+

Bots hand-painted by Gary since 2010
5,000+

Bots made by other who are "stealing" the idea

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The different types of Bots currently available
Portland, Madrid, Boulder, Dallas, Melbourne, London, San Jose, Phoenix

Cities with G Hirsch Murals
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A TINY (and sometimes big) ROBOT ARMY PROGRAMMED TO BRING YOU JOY, HOPE, COURAGE, INSPIRATION!

How can art help?

Botjoy is an exploration of how art can be surprising,
delightful AND helpful. Bots are "programmed" to give you outrageous compliments, help you be brave, take the blame, inspire you, even clone you so you can get more done.

Bots come in small and sometimes large packages

The artist

About the Bots

What are the Bots?

Where the idea came from

the birth of the bots

New Project For 2018:
The CURIOSITY WALL

60 feet wide 20 feet tall. SE 17th and SE Rhine, Portland Oregon

Collaboration

What happens when ideas collide? Often magic! Here is a collaborative mural I did in London with artist Marc Craig.

Brave Bots For an Audience of 3,000

Launching Brave Bots at The World Domination Summit

Bots By the Numbers

49,000+

5,000+

25

Portland, Madrid, Boulder, Dallas, Melbourne, London, San Jose, Phoenix

Socialize

A TINY (and sometimes big) ROBOT ARMY PROGRAMMED TO BRING YOU JOY, HOPE, COURAGE, INSPIRATION!

How can art help?

Botjoy is an exploration of how art can be surprising,delightful AND helpful. Bots are "programmed" to give you outrageous compliments, help you be brave, take the blame, inspire you, even clone you so you can get more done. Bots come in small and sometimes large packages

The artist

About the Bots

What are the Bots?

Where the idea came from

the birth of the bots

New Project For 2018:The CURIOSITY WALL

60 feet wide 20 feet tall. SE 17th and SE Rhine, Portland Oregon

Collaboration

What happens when ideas collide? Often magic! Here is a collaborative mural I did in London with artist Marc Craig.

Brave Bots For an Audience of 3,000

Launching Brave Bots at The World Domination Summit

Bots By the Numbers

49,000+

5,000+

25

Portland, Madrid, Boulder, Dallas, Melbourne, London, San Jose, Phoenix

Socialize

Botjoy is an exploration of how art can be surprising,
delightful AND helpful. Bots are "programmed" to give you outrageous compliments, help you be brave, take the blame, inspire you, even clone you so you can get more done.

Bots come in small and sometimes large packages

New Project For 2018:
The CURIOSITY WALL