The Survival Of Mark Pauline
Posted by Motherboard on Sunday, Oct 11, 2009
When Mark Pauline blew his hand to smithereens working on his enormous apocalyptic battling robots he returned from the hospital with a new outlook on life. He realized his apocalyptic battling robots needed to be far more menacing, autonomous, and dangerous to capture his vision. Since 1978 Pauline’s group, Survival Research Laboratories, or SRL, has been re-directing the tools and methods of industry and military away from warfare and practicality, toward art and anarchy. SRL invented large-scale performance art and inspired the Battle Bot/Robot War phenomena of a few years back, but the group’s more than just a bunch of artist-technician pioneers: They’ve created the art world’s most visceral and direct response to the military industrial complex.
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