Fwd: replicating digestive processes
Bryan Bishop
From: Alec Nielsen <alecn...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Subject: Re: replicating digestive processes
To: diy...@googlegroups.com
A few years ago, a Belgian artist named Wim Delvoye made an
art-installation that "simulates" the human digestive tract. It's
called Cloaca. Twice a day, someone would feed Cloaca with food from
expensive New York restaurants. The machine would then pump the food
through a series of vats containing bile, bilirubin, pancreatin, acids
and other digestive humors. The product, faux feces, was packaged and
sold. Brilliant.
Cloaca: http://www.cloaca.be/machines.htm
Alec
Bryan Bishop
> Here's another version of the robo-feces machines:
>
> http://botropolis.com/2009/02/cloaca-no-5-the-machine-that-drops-a-deuce/
That's one of the most awesome machines ever. It seems like something
pulled straight out of Douglas Adams, like the famous "solar powered
photocopier".
`The creator says, "I wanted to make something that is absurdly
unnecessary…I don't think this biologically correct machine belongs in
a science museum. I don't have that ego. I'm not helping sick people.
I'm practically useless in society."`
The slogan from the top of the page is ".. robots are a fact of life.
Soon they will kill us. We'd like to document the coming apocalypse."
Eric Hunting
of T-slot being used in art projects. The second incarnation of this
machine is one of the more elaborate uses of T-slot in art to date.
There may be some possibility soon of funding for my T-Slot Source
Book project so any leads on other art uses of it or any novel
projects made with it would be welcome.
Eric Hunting
On Feb 3, 3:48 pm, Bryan Bishop <kanz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Here's another version of the robo-feces machines:
>
> That's one of the most awesome machines ever. It seems like something
> pulled straight out of Douglas Adams, like the famous "solar powered
> photocopier".
>
> `The creator says, "I wanted to make something that is absurdly
> unnecessary…I don't think this biologically correct machine belongs in
> a science museum. I don't have that ego. I'm not helping sick people.
> I'm practically useless in society."`
>
> The slogan from the top of the page is ".. robots are a fact of life.
> Soon they will kill us. We'd like to document the coming apocalypse."
>
> 1 512 203 0507
ben lipkowitz
I saw this use of t-slot the other day:
http://www.core77.com/greenergadgets/entry.php?projectid=65
cant say I think it's particularly feasible though.
perhaps better than a giant crapping machine.
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Eric Hunting wrote:
> Subject: [Open Manufacturing] Re: replicating digestive processes