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Performance - Dan Civico Dan
The video installation 'Hope' was Dan Civico’s contribution to Design Event 09 - a program of events across the NorthEast of England with, in 2009, the theme Politics and Play. At the time local car maker Nissan had announced substantial redundancies, and Dan’s response was to postulate on “what do the robots do when the factory is quiet?“ and to suggest one scenario to be this interaction between an ‘inspector’ robot and an ‘apprentice’ robot. The video was presented in a Newcastle city-centre storefront during the event and ran in a 3-minute loop. View Hope here
AitM provided robots and programming. The robots were programmed to run in their own continuous, interleaving cycles thus making it very easy to do repeat shots of differing perspective, further simplifying the edit.
The shoot:
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