Loving Grace ?

CG Images
2021

This body of work uses computer-generated images to challenge the notion of autonomous thought within digital manifestations of the future. Through the lens of robot breath, the reality of autonomous action within the machine is flipped back and forth between the miraculous and the coincidental.

                                               Military

“The Cougar 20-H is a robot with the ability to hear breath through walls. With funding from the U.S. military the robot is equipped with a panel of ultra-wideband radio frequency sensors, remote control functionality, and integrated cameras for day and night time visibility.

The robot that is so sensitive it can not only detect motion through walls but, to ensure no one goes unnoticed, it can also detect the breathing of a stationary person.”

Leisure

All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace

I like to think (and
the sooner the better!)
of a cybernetic meadow
where mammals and computers
live together in mutually
programming harmony
like pure water
touching clear sky.

I like to think
(right now, please!)
of a cybernetic forest
filled with pines and electronics
where deer stroll peacefully
past computers
as if they were flowers
with spinning blossoms.

I like to think
(it has to be!)
of a cybernetic ecology
where we are free of our labors
and joined back to nature,
returned to our mammal
brothers and sisters,
and all watched over
by machines of loving grace.


- Richard Brautigan

       Cultural importance:
It has been a Western tradition for someone to blow on the seedhead and think of a wish they wanted to come true.