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M0N3Y AS AN 3RROR @ M0us310n.net

4 January 2014

Curated by one long-dead Soviet hero, Vasily Zaitsev, design and exhibit installation, M0N3Y AS AN 3RROR, has been available to view at the M0US310n.net website since September last year.

It’s the first of what will hopefully be a rich and ongoing platform for supporting and promoting net and digital art on the M0US310n site and does what the title promises, which is focus on money. That’s from the perspective of some of the most exciting artists out there, including Nick Briz, Addie Wagenknecht, Martin Kohout, Jennifer Chan and many more, announcing “This is very EXPENSIVE”. The pieces on mon3y.us appear to disrupt a system of capital as a major glitch in itself because, after all, “*ONLY FACEBOOK, YOUTUBE, VIMEO & FLICKR MAKE REAL MONEY WITH ALL THIS”.

You can view the installation at M0US310n.net.**

Systaime.
Systaime.

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Optimization of Parenthood

14 May 2012

We will inevitably finish like this, whether it’s ABB or any other robotics company that’s completely secondary, but we will end up substituting a massive % of human labor with robots… fact. The sooner, the easier we accept our human inferiority.

Optimization of parenthood (Video and Images by Jonathan Minard)
Optimization of parenthood (Video and Images by Jonathan Minard)

“Optimization of Parenthood” is by Nortd Labs and developed with support from the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University. They’re proposing a robot arm which reacts whenever the baby placed in the bassinet cries or awakes from sleep…

Mother substitution will also be feasible thanks to this helpful hand… maybe expensive at first… but if well marketed and priced, a serious competitor to your average maid. You won’t need to take 6 months of paternity leave anymore, productivity will rise, and so will your free time.

“In order to optimize as much of the routine tedious monotony of parenthood as possible and make it an option for all women to have both her creative work and children we must optimize the process of parenting. The automatic repetitive task can be transferred to other devices, without affecting ‘the development of the baby’. This frees the mother to do their creative work without having to factor or budget for the high cost of childcare or feel she is pigeonholed into the role because it is simply ‘a women’s nature”.

While we find the above statement to be very accurate… we would love to introduce the “father” concept within… it’s a couple optimization process… and not only that of women.  Nevertheless, it’s a concept to become real in…. x years, and the best thing is that they’re sharing the code for you to customize your own robotic arm as of today! This way ladies and gentlemen! (via ffff.at)

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