RE-SOURCE

Ensemble

Kansai Yamamoto

http://pakuihardware.org/index.php?/works/hesitant-hand-national-gallery-of-art-vilnius/

HESITANT HAND by Pakui Hardware, 2017

Materials: Industrial ABB IRB 2600 robot, transportation boxes, UV print on silicone, images from NASA digital archive, PVC plastic, silicone rubber belts, concrete, stainless steel

Installation is a part of Citynature exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, 2017

Special thanks to ABB Robotics Lietuva, Ona Lozuraityte and Petras Isora All images by Andrej Vasilenko

Over the past years we have been gradually delegating our routine tasks to our tools: the private environment and the industry is becoming increasingly automated, when people both at home and at work act among programmable non-human beings. In contemporary theory this automation was named a fourth technological revolution, when machines operate with each other in a network without a visible human intervention. Mechanical human work is substituted here by the robotic choreography, while the man took more virtual role in the system by being responsible for programming and providing connectivity and energy supply for their automated colleagues. It is an autonomous ecosystem, a post-human collective which is rapidly expanding by including more and more mechanical beings.

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