We interviewed 25 ArtBots artists and were intrigued by the way they related to mainstream robot culture and research in HRI. So we wrote a paper about it, now accepted to alt.chi:
Jacobsson, M., Fernaeus, Y., Ljungblad, S., Cramer, H. (2013). Crafting Against Robotic Fakelore: On the Critical Practice of ArtBot Artists. AltCHI’13. link
A small collection of research matters 