Survival Research Laboratories (SRL) is an American performance art group which pioneered the genre of large-scale machine performance.[1][2][3] Founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline in San Francisco the group is known in particular for performances where custom-built machines, often robotic, compete to destroy each other.[4][5] The performances, described by one critic as "noisy, violent and destructive",[6] are noted for visual and aural cacophony created by the often dangerous interactions of the machinery.[7][8] SRL's work is related to process art and generative art. [9]
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- ^ A day with Survival Research Labs News.com reporter risks life and ego at a post-industrial robot and fire art show. by Daniel Terdiman Aug. 14, 2006, cnet.
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