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The Prix Ars Electronica Archive is a collection enabling search and viewing of all the submissions since 1987. The award-winning projects are documented with catalogue texts and audio-visual media. All other submissions can be searched by title/artist and displayed with year, category in list form. Please cite the credits (artwork name, artist and photographer) and only use the materials if your article is related to Ars Electronica.
Free Range Appliances in a Light Dill Sauce
Rania Ho
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Free Range Appliances in a Light Dill Sauce is an exploration of anthropo morphic qualities inherent in household appliances and an irreverent look at the meaning of "smart" appliances. Kitchen gadgets are liberated from their mundane existences and taught motor skills, enabling them to fully realize their suppressed ambulatory desires.
Each of the appliances have been retrofitted with "state of the art" mechanics and sensors. Each machine has been carefully and lovingly enhanced in accordance with its individual personality The work is done the old-fashioned way: handcrafted by skilled artisans living in the depths of the remote island Manhattan. This timeworn process is the key to our success. Most of our products are photosensitive and react to the bright lights. Of course, all of them are friendly and enjoy the company of humans. Shining an ordinary household flashlight directly on the body of any one of the appliances will cause it to move towards the light. Removing the flashlight will cause it to seek light and heat elsewhere. Some days, if the machines are in a good mood, they may break out in a celebratory dance. We hope you enjoy our free Range Appliances in a Light Dill Sauce. If you're happy, they're happy.
Battery replacement and periodic battery charging is needed.
Each of the appliances have been retrofitted with "state of the art" mechanics and sensors. Each machine has been carefully and lovingly enhanced in accordance with its individual personality The work is done the old-fashioned way: handcrafted by skilled artisans living in the depths of the remote island Manhattan. This timeworn process is the key to our success. Most of our products are photosensitive and react to the bright lights. Of course, all of them are friendly and enjoy the company of humans. Shining an ordinary household flashlight directly on the body of any one of the appliances will cause it to move towards the light. Removing the flashlight will cause it to seek light and heat elsewhere. Some days, if the machines are in a good mood, they may break out in a celebratory dance. We hope you enjoy our free Range Appliances in a Light Dill Sauce. If you're happy, they're happy.
Battery replacement and periodic battery charging is needed.
Rania Ho received her master's degree from New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and her B.A. in Theater from the University of California, Los Angeles. She is currently an Interval Research Fellow at ITP and is a member in absentia of "The world's most psychotic Asian American sketch comedy group", the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.