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Living Machines: Verdant Art-Tech Contraption Descends Upon France

Wired June 2010

This spring, a War of the Worlds-scale tripod carrying verdant laboratories on suspended platforms showed up in Nantes in western France. It was just the latest massive art-tech project from street theater company La Machine, which has been startling Europeans with giant robots for more than a decade. Before the “flying greenhouse,” there was the 50-foot-tall spider on the side of a building in Liverpool.

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2 Comments

  1. After reading the Wired article, J Carter Marketing pleads for La Machine to come to America to show off their “awesome display of animal robot-ry”.

    I concur!

    http://jcartermarketing.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/la-machine-come-to-america-please/

  2. According to Gizmodo, the future of gardening is “one part Up, one part Wild Wild West, and two parts, um, plants.”

    http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2010/05/the-22nd-century-garden/

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