Control over a human subject is turned over to a fully automatic system. The setup on which this experiment is being run is an abstracted assembly line on which electrical muscle stimuli deprive the human being of control over his own body and he becomes a tiny, insignificant cog in the overall mechanism. The computer determines when and how the human's limbs are to be moved. The human thus becomes the slave of the system that he had originally designed-a perversion of the human-machine relationship.
maschine-mensch received an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2005—[the next idea] art and technology grant.

A commissioned work by Ars Electronica. Supported by the Arts Division of the Federal Chancellery, Austria. Additional support by: M. Hauser Medizintechnik, Haberkorn/Ulmer GmbH, Leopold Aumayr GmbH & Co KG, Transparent Design, Liska Bekleidung, Eurofoam GmbH. Special thanks to: Manfred Bijak and Monika Rakos / Center for Biomedical Engineering & Physics, University of Vienna, Vienna General Hospital. Composition: David Gottschalk. Realised in cooperation with Ars Electronica Futurelab / Gerald Priewasser, Katharina Nussbaumer.