(§)”=$” is a meta mêcanique1 made of electronic trash. A camera on a printer head sends the image as ASCII data to the printer, where it is in turn processed by the camera in printed form as optical data. In the struggle for the distribution of processor & processor (input/output) in this circuit, features of autopoiesis2 are observed.
1K.G. Pontus Hulten, Jean Tinguely: ‘Meta’, London: Thames and Hudson, 1975, S.16.
2Self-generation, self-preservation after F. Varela & H. Maturana
Exhibitions
◦ Hagulane, Municipal Gallery Villingen-Schwenningen, DE, 2014
◦ UTOs-Unidentified Technical Objects, V8 Plattform Karlsruhe, DE, 2011
◦ Roboter von Motion zu Emotion, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, CH, 2009
◦ Datenfitnesscenter im EDV-Studio, Rüdigerstr, Zürich, CH, 2003
Photos courtesy of Thorsten Strohmeier