30/05/2008

BBM - Beobachter der Bediener von Maschinen (observers of operators of machines)

Artist Presentation

Friday 30th May, 7.30 – 8.30pm

Machine performance group BBM will present a selection of work, from their public space performances and "riot re-enactments" (1989-1997), to their "research projects" (about sensory deprivation, examplified by Stuttgart-Stammheim high sec jail for RAF terrorists and a 2nd project on the artificial rubber plant of IG Farben in Auschwitz); the swarm robot project on world exhibition 2000, the biggest test in collective roboting and multichannel video ever made (with 72 robots); TROIA a Culture 2000 project about "technologies of political control"; and finally, embedded art.