PROTOZOA

PROJECT BY MEDIA LAB CYLAND
CONCEPT: MARINA KOLDOBSKAYA
DEVELOPMENT, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, MECHANICS: OLEG RODIONOV
DESIGN, SMITHERY: ANTON CHUMAK
ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA. 2009.

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These robots pretend to be neither intelligent not machines. Having sensed an alien presence, they defend themselves in the only manner they are capable of: they are whipping with the flagellum (tale; proboscis; sting). The excitement of one is transmitted to all the rest. In a few seconds, the mass hysteria consumes the entire micro-community. They do not know if it is a friend or a foe that came; cannot evaluate whether their defense is effective or futile; do not distinguish a trifle from a serious threat; they miss the target. They are a bit like you and me.

MK

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