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Topic(s): Arts | Engineering
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A rare opportunity to meet Mark Pauline and his cohorts, human and machine, behind the legendary mechanical performances dubbed "the most dangerous shows on Earth."
Web site: http://www.srl.org/
Amy Critchett
http://www.srl.org/
Mark Pauline
from wikipedia: Mark Pauline (born Dec 14, 1953) is an American Performance Artist and Inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs, a performance group whose installations are typically composed of machines and robots creating as much mayhem as the safety of onlookers permits. Pauline founded the group in 1978 and it is considered the main forebear of practitioners of "industrial performing arts" and of popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other (see BattleBots and Robot Wars).
Pauline has written of SRL, "Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry,
http://www.srl.org