The Space Cowgirls ( Kim Leary and Brynn Cortez) officiated at many Cacophony and Burning Man events during the mid-90’s, bringing a blast of fun and style to all the events they supported. In this video by Puzzling Evidence, you can see the fun backstage at a San Francisco New Year Eve bash.
Harrod Blank, Philo Northrup, Emily Duffy, Tom Kennedy and many many other Art Car artists have been Cacophony Fellow Travelers over the years.
Survival Research Labs, founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline, Eric Werner and Matt Heckert was the group that most directly and profoundly initiated the entire genre of modern machine art. Every battle-bot, junkyard war, exploding machine event and mechanical myth-busting sound bite owes this protean group and it’s grinning avatar Mark Pauline a tip O’ the hat. In the mid-90’s there was a lot of cross-over between SRL and Cacophony.
Survival Research Labs, founded in 1978 by Mark Pauline, Eric Werner and Matt Heckert was the group that most directly and profoundly initiated the entire genre of modern machine art. Every battle-bot, junkyard war, exploding machine event and mechanical myth-busting sound bite owes this protean group and it’s grinning avatar Mark Pauline a tip O’ the hat. In the mid-90’s there was a lot of cross-over between SRL and Cacophony. The Kill Your TV event was a collaboration & Cacophony members were major collaborators on the Austin show:
A slide show and in-depth report on scaling big bridges by John Law.
