AUTOMATION NO.1

​"In what circumstances might the reduction of labor by way of a device—the simplest promise of all technology—become regarded, even when not illusory, as a contemptible, untrustworthy, or generally negative thing?" --Sianne Ngai, Theory of the Gimmick, 2017​

built and operated by Emily Gastineau and Sam Johns and Eric Larson; photo by Galen Fletcher; courtesy Walker Art Center