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“I Can't Help Myself" This art is programmed to try to contain the constantly leaking hydraulic fluid required to keep it running. If too much escapes, it will cease to function, so it desperately tries to pull it back

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This art piece titled “Can’t Help Myself” is programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running… if too much escapes it will die, so it’s desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do ‘happy dances’ for spectators while the spill was contained. When the project was first launched in 2016, it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd with exuberance, since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. many years later it looks worn down and hopeless, because the amount of leaked fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. There now isn’t enough time to dance, as it only has enough time to try to keep it self alive. living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out. the arm slowly came to a halt and died in 2019, but with a twist; the robot actually runs off of electricity, not hydraulics, so it was working its entire life towards some thing it didn’t even need, tricked by the system it was brought into. Wild how this parallels the human experience. can’t help but wonder if there’s a lesson to be learned from this art, mechanical or not. Does the suffering ever end? (From Aninarts on insta)
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This art piece titled “Can’t Help Myself” is programmed to try to contain the hydraulic fluid that’s constantly leaking out and required to keep itself running… if too much escapes it will die, so it’s desperately trying to pull it back to continue to fight for another day. saddest part is they gave the robot the ability to do ‘happy dances’ for spectators while the spill was contained. When the project was first launched in 2016, it danced around spending most of its time interacting with the crowd with exuberance, since it could quickly pull back the small spillage. many years later it looks worn down and hopeless, because the amount of leaked fluid became unmanageable as the spill grew over time. There now isn’t enough time to dance, as it only has enough time to try to keep it self alive. living its last days in a never-ending cycle between sustaining life and simultaneously bleeding out. the arm slowly came to a halt and died in 2019, but with a twist; the robot actually runs off of electricity, not hydraulics, so it was working its entire life towards some thing it didn’t even need, tricked by the system it was brought into. Wild how this parallels the human experience. can’t help but wonder if there’s a lesson to be learned from this art, mechanical or not. Does the suffering ever end? (From Aninarts on insta)

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