{"id":414,"date":"2011-09-08T19:46:32","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-09-08T19:53:18","modified_gmt":"2011-09-09T02:53:18","slug":"mobility-at-momenta-art-sept-9th-oct-17th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/08\/mobility-at-momenta-art-sept-9th-oct-17th\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobility at Momenta Art, Sept 9th &#8211; Oct 17th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the one artist without a cart in the exhibition <a href=\"http:\/\/momentaart.org\/cur_pro\/index.html\" title=\"Momenta Art, current exhibition\">Mobility<\/a>, however the curators elected to include my &#8220;Undocumented Drones&#8221; as part of the show.  The exhibition looks great, upon entering the gallery, I wished that one of my carts was available for the show, unfortunately they are either disassembled or in another part of the world.  The exhibition opens Friday, September 9th and runs through October 17th, hopefully my bots will survive.  The images below are a preview, the paint bucket in the first photo is not art.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/momenta01.jpg\" alt=\"Mobility exhibition at Momenta\" \/><br \/>\nFrom left to right: <em>Undocumented Drones<\/em>, <em>Blender<\/em> by Hidemi Takagi and <em>Pimp My Piragua<\/em> by Miguel Luciano<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/momenta02.jpg\" alt=\"Mobility exhibition at Momenta\" \/><br \/>\nFrom left to right: <em>SOS Mobile Classroom<\/em> by Tattfoo Tan and M\u00e1ximo Gonz\u00e1lez\u2019s <em>Changarrito<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/momenta03.jpg\" alt=\"Mobility exhibition at Momenta\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Consume Love<\/em> by Atom Cianfarani<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/images\/2011\/momenta04.jpg\" alt=\"Mobility exhibition at Momenta\" \/><br \/>\nClose up of an <em>Undocumented Drone<\/em> &#8211; a series of modified hobby robots that have been enhanced with an additional microcontroller, screen and radio module.  Each robot presents a rotoscoped animation until it receives a twitter message with the tag \u201cDREAMers\u201d.  Upon receiving the tweet, the animation freezes, the motors are activated and the message or tweet is displayed.  <\/p>\n<p>The <em>Undocumented Drones<\/em> represent a near slave class within the United States that exists for cheap labor and does not have a voice \u2013 the undocumented laborers contributing to this country and primarily concerned with providing for the children and family.  The twitter tag \u201cDREAMers\u201d alludes to the children of undocumented immigrants, brought to this country at a young age who have grown up in the United States, but may not have a right to higher education or employment.  The DREAM Act was introduced a decade ago to create a pathway toward citizenship for undocumented youth.  The DREAM Act has never been passed, however many of the young adults who would benefit from it have exposed themselves as undocumented and become activists; they are the DREAMers. Each bot juxtaposes the silent day laborer with the activist offspring. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m the one artist without a cart in the exhibition Mobility, however the curators elected to include my &#8220;Undocumented Drones&#8221; as part of the show. 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