Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers, first used in the 1960s by early NASA Mars space probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)and programmed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Instrumentation Lab and built by Raytheon. Software written by MIT programmers was woven into core rope memory by female workers in factories. Some programmers nicknamed the finished product LOL memory, for Little Old Lady memory. The below video is posted by the youtuber "Look mum no computer" 👇 He turned core rope memory into musical sequencer. In "Can't Help Myself" an industrial robot turns and flexes restlessly in its transparent "cage", almost like a creature capturesd and placed on display. The robot has been programmed to ensure that a thick, deep red liquid stays within a predetermined area. This blood-like fluid continually oozes away, triggering the robot's sensors and prompting the machine to shovel it back into place. The artists have "taught" the robot to perform 32 different movements - from "scratch and itch" to "ass shake" - giving it an uncanny, mesmerising human grace. For Sun Yuan and Peng Yu the uncontrollable liquid thet the machine keeps trying to contain conjures what they preserve to be art's essential elusiveness, its defiant refusal to being pinned down and fixed in place. This work was originally produced for the exhibition "Tales of Our Time" at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and made possible by The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation. Gasifier wood stove (Burn time test)19/3/2023
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