HUMANS NEED NOT TO COUNT

At the exhibition from September 1, 2018 to January 6, 2019

This work poses questions about employment, robotics, and quantification. It presents a robotic arm that counts visitors with a clicker, offering a performative representation of the takeover of routine jobs, even in the museum. The work also embodies our idolatry of quantification; the obsessive need to count and measure everything.

Last century’s automation may have been largely hidden from everyday view, in factories tending production lines, or out in fields tilling the land. In this century, we will confront the reality of automation more intimately, as suggested here – it will be right beside us.

Commissioned by the Science Gallery Dublin
3-D printed robotic arm: InMoov