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Pauline founded SRL in 1978 and it is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such
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Pauline has written of SRL, "Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare." Since its
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According to Pauline "I like to make machines that can just do their own shows... machines that can do all that machines in the science fiction novels can do. I want to be there to make those dreams real."
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beginning through the end of 2006, SRL has conducted about 48 shows, with long titles such as "A Cruel and Relentless Plot to Pervert the Flesh of Beasts to Unholy Uses".
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In the summer of 1982, Pauline severely damaged his right hand while experimenting with solid rocket fuel. In August 1990, ArtPark, a state-sponsored arts festival in
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Appearance on KRON-TV's "SFO with Steve Jamison" variety show in 1981 (San Francisco, Calif.)
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in Florida, as a sub-contractor maintaining target robots. He is a 1977 graduate of
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National Public Radio report on SRL, with link to radio broadcast
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magazine article on Pauline and SRL by Bruce Sterling
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American performance artist and inventor (born 1953)
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Survival Research Laboratories
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Eckerd College
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Robot Wars
Lewiston, New York
"Machine Art that Shoots Flames and Rips Stuff Apart"
"Mark Pauline, fiery showman, now into machines"
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"Terrorism as art: Mark Pauline's dangerous machines"
"Survival Research Labs in Los Angeles"

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