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Notable examples of machines as art

A follow-up to this post, featuring:

Arthur Ganson, Machine with Wishbone, 1998 Paola Pivi, It's a cocktail party, 2007, 9 electric pumps and water, red wine, olive oil, black ink, glycerine, woodruff, espresso, milk, facial tonic, 540x74x74 cm each Martin Riches, The Flute Playing Machine, 1979-82 Theo Jansen, one of the kinetic sculptures from the Strandbeest project, 1990-ongoing, PVC tubing, fabric, wood, etc, dimensions variable Jordan Wolfson, Colored Sculpture, 2016 Kristoffer Myskja, Smoking Machine, 2007, cigarettes, various metals, filament, motor, 23×15×20 cm Michael Sailstorfer, It Might as Well be Spring, 2014 Angela Bulloch, Betaville, 1994, bench activated drawing machine, ink, metal rails and electronic motor machine, 315×340 cm Nick Darmstaedter, Vicki Vallencourt (Trap), 2013, fishing rod, hammer, plant, rope, wire and moss in buckets, 55x33x24 in Mona Hatoum, + and -, 1994-2004, steel, aluminum, sand, electric motor

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this thing is viscerally unsettling

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Machine With Oil, Arthur Ganson, 2009.

Looking at enough of these machines changes your brain as a child, I think. You could take an MRI of my brain and it'd just be little gears and whirlidoos with a vague existential undertone. Don't take your kids to the MIT museum*, folks, they'll become horribly obsessed with robots in their college years.

*not applicable to the current MIT museum, which seems to feel content as the architectural equivalent of ikea furniture. For proper results, time travel back to 2010.

(Machine With Oil, Arthur Ganson, Posted Jan. 9, 2009 to Youtube. Sculpture presumably still in the MIT Museum collection.)

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