Survival Research Laboratories was founded in 1979 by Mark Pauline and has operated as an organization of
artists and
technicians dedicated to exploring the potential for redirecting the techniques, tools and tenets of industry
and
science away from their typical manifestations in practicality or product. Since 1979, SRL has staged 33
mechanized
presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized
interactions
between machines, robots, and special effects devices with humans present only as operators or audience…. [e.g.]
March 6, 1984. ON BROADWAY THEATRE. Staged in conjunction with presentations
by Einsturzende Neubauten, Boyd
Rice, and
Rhythm & Noise. A furiously paced celebration of the possibilities for interaction between machines, meat, and
meat
by-products.
— Amok Fourth Dispatch: Sourcebook of the Extremes of Information in
Print
(Amok, 1990)
