Smart Machine, digital print, 14"x34"

Smart Machine was produced as a limited edition digital print on low cost paper. The edition was installed in a newspaper box and distributed freely for two weeks in conjunction with an exhibition. Folded in three parts, the print appears first as a headline with a chest x-ray photograph of Robert Tools, the first recipient of a totally implantable artificial heart. When fully unfolded, the composition includes manipulated video stills of a fashion show runway and a child-like drawing of a projector. Smart Machine locates technology as a basic component of the human condition, citing the complex expressive modalities of art and fashion and the augmentation of the body in scientific practice as common indicators of the will to evolve.