centerimg id="image1609" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2101/canoe_detail.jpg" alt="canoe_detail.jpg" //center centeriImage: Peter Flemming, Canoe, 2008 /i/centerbr / centerimg id="image1612" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2101/helplessrobotsmall.gif" alt="helplessrobotsmall.gif" //center centeriImage: Norman White, The Helpless Robot, 2008 (Photo by Michelle Kasprzak)/i/centerbr / centerimg id="image1613" src="http://rhizome.org/imagebase/article/2101/joemccaysmall.gif" alt="joemccaysmall.gif" //center centeriImage: Joe McKay, The Big Job, 2008 (Photo by Michelle Kasprzak)/i/centerbr / pBringing together five Canadian machine-makers, a href="http://schematic.blogsome.com/"Schematic: New Media Art From Canada/a is a group show currently on view at London's a href="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/index.php"[ space ]/a gallery. Curator Michelle Kasprzak begins a href="http://schematic.blogsome.com/2008/11/12/critical-text-about-the-exhibition/"her essay accompanying the show/a with a description of Jacques de Vaucanson's a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck"duck./a Citing the appeal of this quirky and captivating invention within its time, she argues that machines today continue to instigate the same degree of fascination, a response to enduring questions of representation and behavior. The show also claims that the group of artists selected -- Peter Flemming, Germaine Koh, Joe Mckay, Nicholas Stedman, and Norman White -- draw on their particular experience as Canadians in their exploration of such themes as weather, the environment, and craftsmanship. I don't know if those topics are necessarily "Canadian", but I had to chuckle a little bit at the explicit play on the rugged frontiersmen stereotype. That aside, the most compelling strand in the show seems to be that of futility and failure. Three works -- Joe McKay's iThe Big Job/i, Peter Flemming's iCanoe/i, and Norman White's iThe Helpless Robot/i -- engage in actions that reflect the limitations of machines and often their inutility. iThe Big Job/i is a mechanical progress bar that moves in accordance to a loading webpage. Repeating infinitely as the page reloads over and over again, it serves as both documentation and a representation of frustration. Similarly, Peter Flemming's iCanoe/i paddles itself to nowhere, while iThe Helpless Robot/i relies entirely on the aide of visitors to move about the gallery, actions which are dictated by a synthesized voice. Rather than cater to the "gee whiz" quality of machines, these projects elicit another concurrent response, which is, of course, "goddammit". /p p class="more"a href="http://www.spacestudios.org.uk/All_Content_Items/Exhibitions/Current_Exhibition%3A_Schematic/"Link raquo;/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rhizome-fp/~4/460937427" height="1" width="1"/

Could you tell a few auto shows were going on in California? In case you've somehow overlooked it, a number of automakers are showing off some swank new in-car connectivity options, and Dodge is striving to elicit even more fluids from your saliva glands by showing off the Dodge EV. We initially heard about this mythical automobile back in September, and now the very Viper-inspired whip is wowing onlookers in LA. The all-electric plug-in boasts mid-mounted batteries, a 268-horsepower engine, a 150-mile range and a 0 to 60 time of under five seconds. Have a peek at what you'll be attempting to finance "as early as 2010" down in the read link.

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