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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steamboatjerry 8 months ago

the show at the same time as the goodwill games
steamboatjerry 8 months ago

alaska way viaduct crickets?
steamboatjerry 8 months ago

in seattle 3 times where do we see this on recorded engineering
Ollie 10 months ago

Saw a show in S.F. years ago.... Was perhaps one of the loudest most bombastic experiences ever!!!! SRL Rules!!!
EON_ION 9 months ago

Curious... Do you have to sign a release to attend one of his performances?
cgertler 10 months ago

How has he never blown up his audience?
Another 10 months ago

I rather risk that than get covered in watermelon remnants.
Orion 10 months ago

His son has big shoes to fill. Smaller gloves, but bigger shoes.
The_Good_Doc 10 months ago

And who is buying these contraptions on eBay?
The_Good_Doc 10 months ago

And who is buying these contraptions on eBay?