Escape Velocity (18 page)
Authors: Mark Dery
Tags: #Computers, #Computer Science, #Social Aspects, #General, #Computers and civilization, #Internet, #Internet (Red de computadoras), #Computacao (aspectos socio-economicos e politicos), #Sociale aspecten, #Ordinateurs et civilisation, #Cybersexe, #Cyberespace, #Cyberspace, #Kultur, #Sozialer Wandel
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Matt Heckert and Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories. Photo: Bobby Neel Adams
Pauline amid mechanical mayhem, with the Inchworm at left, the Inspector in the foreground, and the Walking Machine at right. ©7 995 SRI
The Running Machine in The Deliberate Evolution of a War Zone: A Parable of Spontaneous Structural Degeneration (1992). © SRL/Gladsjo.
The Big Arm in Illusions of Shameless Abundance: Degenerating into an Uninterrupted Sequence of Hostile Encounters (1989). Bobby Neel Adams/Sixth Street Studios
The Walking Machine. © 7 995 SRL
The Big Arm and the Inchworm in In Original Machine Performance Tailored Especially for the City of Copenhagen (1988), © 199S Cati Lapone
SRL's Medusa breathes fire (with the aid of aV-1 jet engine) in A Carnival of Misplaced Devotion: Calculated to Arouse Resentment for the Principles of Order (1990). © 199S Kimric Smythe
Guinea pig—controlled walking machine in a 1985 installation at New York's AREA nightclub. © SKL/Jonathan Reiss
Rabot. © 1995 Mark Sangerman
Chico MacMurtrie withTaiko Drummer.
Photo:Douglas Adesko
String Body. Photo:Douglas Adesko
MacMurtrie telcoperating the Tumbling Man by means of a radio-transmitting suit.
Photo:Tom Erikson
Trigram's 20-foot-taH "Metal Mother.' © 1995 Kurt Prasse
"Overconsumption Man" and pneumatically powered robotic trees in The Trees Are Walking. Photo: Sixth Street Studio
Brett Goldstone with Steam Car Mark III
Photo: Sixth Street Studio
Water-Powered Vehicle. © 1995 Mark Fleming
