SOFT CONTROL » James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau

James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau

samo — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:27:07 +0000

What would robots look and behave like if their design was decoupled from the normative systems that inform their form and function?
For this project we have re-imagined the entertainment robot, shifting away from the friendly pet-like device towards a sinister and more complex mode of interaction.
The robots rely on flying insects and rodents for energy (via a microbial fuel cell). It is in the staged hunting process that they manufacture intrigue, anticipation and an existential spectacle of life and death. The resultant robots represent a new class of object existing somewhere between the natural and the artificial.

James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau

samo — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:22:13 +0000

The Afterlife project is intended to instigate a metaphysical dialogue, examining the cultural shift from belief systems upheld by organized religion to the more factual basis of science and technology.
The project proposes the harnessing of our chemical potential after biological death through the application of a microbial fuel cell, harvesting its electrical potential in a dry cell battery. Here, technology acts to provide conclusive proof of life after death, life being contained in the battery.
“We have speculated on how we might use this battery ourselves, and asked people to give us their proposals for Afterlife objects.”