forever wild (nest machine)

forever wild (nest machine)

Preemptive nostalgia for wilderness and creatures lost.
A run down workshop on a generation ship or a boutique factory making knick knacks for terraformed lands.
What will we fill our wild places with when wild things are gone?

"forever wild (nest machine)" is the first in a series of speculative machines that generate artifacts no longer produced by natural processes. It is an inefficient factory built from scraps and debris, making elaborate nests for forgotten creatures.

More from forever wild: forever wild (kill site record)

Chip Schwartz review at KnightArts:
http://www.knightarts.org/community/philadelphia/douglas-irving-repetto-nest-machine

Ben Meyer review at the artblog:
http://www.theartblog.org/2012/12/the-mechanical-nest-of-an-unknown-creature-douglas-irvings-forever-wild-nest-machine-at-marginal-utility

Installed at Marginal Utility in Philadelphia, December 2012 - January 2013.

Thanks to David Dempewolf and and Yuka Yokoyama @ Marginal Utility for their support and encouragement! XOXOXO