A neat srl video clip from @yourfashionarchive / thanks for the heads up SRL alumni @claytantor. I think this is the 2nd time ive seen SRL mentioned in a fashion vlog/instagram!
@bay_area_nostalgia asks “is it art or is it crime” HT @ryanjunell
This was from the 1996 Halloween Trick where Mark Pauline ran the V1 outside the Roxy during the screening of Pandemonium
The lift motor for the Omniwheel machine. This will lift and lower the puncher assembly with an endless chain. It will be able to punch from below knee level to your face, depending on how tall you are.
Mark Pauline demos the base for the Puncher. Video from Karen Marcelo
Well, the base for the puncher seems to work pretty good on the first try. A little more powerful than I thought it would be. Now just have to mount the puncher onto it and find some thing to destroy. Video from Jon Reiss
From Jon Reiss:
Three of my Survival Research Laboratories films are screening today at the Vera Club in the Netherlands. The club is in Gronigen – of which I have very fond memories when I toured with Target Video – showing our punk rock documentaries all over Europe – Groningen has always had a vibrant and intense alt scene. And I’ve also had a soft spot for The Netherlands in general – as the site of the first SRL European tour which is documented in The Will to Provoke – I was able to spend 3 months in Amsterdam editing that film. All three of the films were shot in the 1980s with Mark Pauline and other members of Survival Research Laboratories A SCENIC HARVEST FROM THE KINGDOM OF PAIN, the film that also features Monte Cazazza who recently pasted away, was filmed 1984 and it was my first solo endeavor post Target. A BITTER MESSAGE OF HOPELESS GRIEF, 1988 the first and only fiction film with SRL and aforementioned THE WILL TO PROVOKE: AN ACCOUNT OF FANTASTIC SCHEMES FOR INITIATING SOCIAL IMPROVEMENTS, 1989, all screening at 8:00 pm – tonight. @markpauline5 @survivalresearchlabs #survivalresearchlabs #markpauline #machineart #machinelearning #netherlands #srl
How to make the perfect SRL industrial coffee (video from Karen Marcelo:
David Petchey and Mark Pauline record gestures for the track robot using a phone/tablet controller. These gestures are saved and can be played back when the predator arm finds targets or responds to things specified by mark that people are doing or based on whaf they look like etc.
From Jon Reiss:
Sad to say goodbye to Monte Cazazza who I got to know pretty well in San Francisco in the early 80s while making documentaries of @survivalresearchlabs. He had an incredibly sharp wit, had unique perspectives on the world and was a pioneer of industrial music collaborating with #factrix and #throbbinggristle and others – even coining the phrase “industrial music for industrial people”. He was nice enough to let me use his classic song #stairwaytohell for the opening sequence of my first directing project “A Scenic Harvest From the Kingdom of Pain” – a performance documentary of three SRL performances for 1983-1984 (yikes – 40 years ago note the old school chryon titles). I cut together a little Stairway to Hell tribute to Monte here from that film – focusing on the first performance which amoung other machines features a machine that @markpauline5 made and named after Monte’s song which Monte operated during the performance. You get a sense of him even in this tiny clip. RIP Monte 6/29/23
SRL to be featured in Kara Walker project in San Francisco. Maybe Kara would like us to demo some machines? Wow! We are so honored in any case! https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/kara-walker-sfmoma-mural-free-18112450