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The
ArtistMachine draws, signs, displays, comments, shreds and blows
it all out across the floor ready for the cleaners. Like all artists
it is infinitely needy and pathetically dependent upon others for
its continued existence. Unlike most artists it has the decency
to dispose of what it produces before future generations have to
work out what to do with it...
The original ArtistMachine was built in 2001 for the exhibition
"Sentient Cog" at the 5th @ Guinness Storehouse in Dublin
in 2001. It was installed again in Nottingham in 2003 as part of
the “Sensitive Skin” Live art festival.
It consisted of a mechanism which drew a crayon circle on a roll
of paper for roughly ten minutes; the drawing process then stopped,
a facsimilie signature was stamped under the image and the roll
of paper advanced, moving the “work” to a position on
the front of the machine where it was “exhibited” for
the next phase of the cycle. Meanwhile the drawing that had previously
occupied that position is pulled into a shredder and the resulting
residue blown out of a vent by a powerful fan. Over the period of
the installation, the shredded paper piles up to form a kind of
“snowdrift” - arguably the final “product”
of the machine’s activity.
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