Artist Creates Replicas of Complex Machines Using Wood

Pictured above is a replica of an airport security checkpoint. It's at a museum, not an airport. Roxy Paine is currently exhibiting it at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City. His exhibit, which is entitled, "The Denuded Lens," consists of three replicas of complex machines made with wood. Paine finds machines fascinating because they represent, to him, both control and a lack of it. In an interview with It's Nice That, he explains:

Machines act as industrial agents, but also as a physical manifestation of a mechanism of control. My machines utilise and contradict rules and norms of the factory and mass production. All of them seek to locate the moment in time and the place where control becomes non-control and where control becomes randomness. They also seek to find the place where sameness and uniqueness blur and become indistinct. Establishing a systematic language composed of certain fixed absolutes and certain variable entities.

Click on Continue reading to view another incredible work by Paine entitled The Machine of Indeterminacy. His craftsmanship is amazing.

-via NotCot


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I would have loved to be at the meeting where they discussed a need for a autonomous human-eating robot.

I swear, it's like these people have never seen any science fiction film. They could have at least watched Terminator 3 a few years back.
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Yeah. I try not to be an anti-science guy, running around screaming the Apocalypse is upon us, but HOLY $#&@ING CRAP! I mean, what the hell are they honestly thinking? It's like they're playing mind games with us at this point.
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@redphone

I think they should be able to... I think the thing about "biomass" is that you'd have to be decomposing first before it can harvest the energy. An unconscious injured soldier isn't decomposing enough for it to harvest any energy.
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I looked this up, and the maker of this robot, Robotic Technology Inc. (RTI) have a press release concerning this project.

They claim it is strictly a vegetarian robot.

They're pullin' our chains. haha
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This is just one of the many developing energy resources for the future robots. Alternatives are fuel cells, chemically powered artificial muscles, solar etc...
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