Mark Pauline
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Mark Pauline (born December 14, 1953) is an American performance artist and inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs.
Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars.
Pauline has written of SRL, "Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare." Since its beginning through the end of 2006, SRL has conducted about 48 shows.
In August 1990, ArtPark, a state-sponsored arts festival in Lewiston, New York, cancelled a Pauline performance when it turned out he intended "to cover a sputtering Rube Goldberg spaceship with numerous Bibles" that would "serve as thermal protective shields" and be burned to ashes in the course of the performance.(San Francisco Chronicle, August 14, 1990, [1]).
[edit] External links
- Website of Survival Research Labs
- National Public Radio report on SRL, with link to radio broadcast
- excellent and comprehensive July 1996 Wired magazine article on Pauline and SRL by Bruce Sterling
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