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Time is on my Side

Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau.Confronted with emotions (such as love, hate, affection, contempt, joy, and sorrow), morality and decency, as well as life and death, the machines try to comprehend these human traits. Everything seems to be connected to the factor of time. But what is time? Time is what the mechanics of clockwork indicate or what a human perceives as memories between being born and dying. For a machine, though, time has no real meaning. It is everlasting. A robot cannot live nor die. All that makes a human being vulnerable is incompatible with the programming and logic mechanisms of a machine. Even if the android seems to approach human personhood step by step, it nevertheless fails in the end, being unable to perceive time as humans do because of its own “organic” immortality.
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Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau.A circle of androids (robots intended to be human) discussing the pain of not knowing emotions, of being infallible, and therefore replaceable, and their desire for mortality.
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Kunsthaus Langenthal.An android is a machine in human form. More than a normal robot, it tries to be seen as human through its appearance and behavior. Unlike the cyborg, which is a fusion of human and machine and attempts to expand its human capabilities, the android is a purely artificially created human being that tends to contain its technically unlimited capabilities so as not to differ from the human being as a machine. Created by humans, however, the humanoid robot is treated as an object and used as a servant.
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Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau.The installation consists of five television sets that were removed from their casing and placed in a circle facing each other. The technical insides are in plain view and bestow unto the protagonists a physical as well as an exposed body. As if they were five beings come together just for this purpose, the mechanical creatures on screen comment on their conflicts with trying to be human.
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Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau. Dismantled CRT monitor
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Rote Fabrik, Zürich.After Frederick Winslow Taylor from Principles of Scientific ManagementThe best method becomes standard.
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