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Cloaca
Wim Delvoye (BE)
Prix Ars Electronica 2007 “Hybrid Art. Award of Distinction.”
Fed twice daily, this absurd “shitting machine” consists of a sequence of connected glass receptacles, each containing a specific biochemical composition in which an intestinal micro-climate of bacterial flora is maintained, thereby replicating the various stages of digestion. Cloaca is designed as a laboratory of materialized processuality, with an assembly line of stainless steel elements, flasks of enzymes kept constantly at “body” temperature, peristaltic pumps that transfer the ripening concoction through silicone intestines and internal electrical circuits that run the machine’s control software. Through a relentlessly single-minded attempt to perfect the verisimilitude of its output, Delvoye has, to date, produced seven fully-functional revisions of this “generative artwork” over the last ten years – the two most recent to be unveiled in September 2007 in Luxembourg.
Source: Wim Delvoye (BE)
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