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Our most personal experience was at I Am Robot and Proud, or rather DJ Emulsion, since the Robot as advertised was stuck in Canada. Don’t ask, we don’t know either. Left to our own devices as our companion took part in the chess tournament outside, we were free to enjoy the minimal, mostly cheerful blips and bloops that issued forth from Emulsion’s laptops, set to a visual panoply of random, disjointed images. Initially we thought it’d be a dance set like MF Chicago, but the exhibit exemplified low-key with just two tables and the projected visuals. As a result, people got bored and there was a high turnover. We didn’t care. These were the people who wanted to see the show for novelty. We figure their line of thinking was, “Robots?! Cool! I’m in!” without knowing it’d be electronic music. While we would have rather had a dance floor going, we were grateful for the experience. It was also the only time we spent any money in the Loop. We certainly can’t say that very often.