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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

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