The Egg Project
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Aharon Ozery´s installation has peacefully invaded a big room at the Davide Gallo Gallery in Mitte, Berlin.
The Egg Project is an extremely charming kinetic mechanical structure whose arms move big egg-like objects from one location towards another in a circular movement. Again and again. It is elegant, smooth, slightly absurd and certainly less noisy than the video would have you believe.
The machine behaves like a mother whose delicate rubber fingers only live for the pleasure of nesting her eggs from one platform to another. The machine in its role as a care-taker reflects the ambivalent relation our culture sustains with machines which is that of suspicion and admiration. The machine' s potential of self awareness makes the human a possible anachronism. Not only does the machine simile humanity, it aspires to be more than human - a better version, which frightens us. On view until 10th November 2007. More images. Thanks for the tip Tikva! Fancy more eggs? almost certified (grade A noise for non-discerning consumers) are robotic drum machines that make music by playing an exotic range of real eggs.
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I'm sorry, but this just isn't impressive at all. The work is terribly over-stated. It's your every-day robot that is programmed to perform only one task, but performs it very slowly, and because of that and its rubber fingers we're supposed to assume it's cognizant. The writeup is more elaborate than the machine; maybe they should submit to the Writer's Market.
And To Tetsu:
I got what you're saying. It's interesting that you interpreted the rubber fingers to imply cognizance!
Really, though, the project is more simple than you think and is not supposed to be complicated!
Aharon made the "Egg Project" with the intention of making something that looked complex in it's construction but is actually entirely mundane and meaningless in its purpose. That is where the beauty lies: in it's meaninglessness.