see also MobileUnit
Disambiguation: the mobile unit started as a very specific object (the mobile unit for turning oxygen into carbon dioxide and back again), but it has since come to signify a general approach: The Mobile Unit as parasite, introlocuteur. See MobileUnit for this latter meaning. This page deals with the specific, TheySaySmall application...
Mobile Unit For Turning Oxygen Into Carbon Dioxide and Back Again - Early (Failed) Prototypes
''I recommend you download 
a pdf of the installation plan here, or check out this simple web-page of the exhibit and placards.
Skull/Plant Machine
(skull, plant, on wheels, but nothing could work because physical function was clearly not understood when developed)
Planked
(the robots/ scripts attributed their first failure to the fact that the head no longer moved after being removed from the body, so they devised a second version in which the head is animated. Alas, this attempt failed as well. (watch this slide show of failed attempt number 2)
Chart,
Photo
a photo of a person (disheveled, scared like Abu Graib) holding a plant, looking away from the camera in exhausted so trace fear. We want to convey that this person and plant became the skull and plant in front of us.
Cybernetic Plants and Petri Dish
DmMascott
Related Projects
see DmImaginarySystems fer sure
Museum of Jurassic Technology
"the Museum serves the general public by providing the visitor a hands-on experience of life in the Jurassic...." (via
Dunne + Raby create these make-believe worlds that reflect on our own.
Crazy obscure dilletante art.
Shea Zellweger is occupied with intense, beautiful, nonsensical-seeming, indepth, colorful research.
Yuri Leiderman buils worlds and charts reminsicnent of Robert A. Small as well
!Scott Scriver, Marcel Dzama, Royal Art Lodge
Why the future doesn't need us
Wired article on a dystopian image of the future
Related Blog posts
Other Mobile Units
Jared Steffenson's Portable Objects
