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Since I love you, my loneliness begins to throw you.
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“The Truth about Sancho Panza” ("Die Wahrheit über Sancho Pansa")
Franz Kafka
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Thus the dream house must possess every virtue. How ever spacious, it must also be a cottage, a dove-cote, a nest, a chrysalis. Intimacy needs the heart of a nest. Erasmus, his biographer tells us, was long "in finding a nook in his fine house in which he could put his little body with safety.”
He ended by confining himself to one room until he could breathe the parched air that was necessary to him.
Gaston Bachelard
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Sparko the Robot Dog by Joseph 'Barney' Barnett and Don Lee Hadley (1940). Sparko was the faithful companion of "Elektro the mechanical man" created for the New York World's Fair from 1939-40, and was modelled after Hadley's own Scotty dog. One motor drives the walking action, which also wags its tail. The legs are synchronised by a chain, and a crank lifts each leg up and forward. The slots visible in the underside of Sparko's body allow its legs freedom to move back and forth. A separate 'sit down' motor activates a sitting mechanism that brings both rear legs forward, and turns its head. Sparko shares Elektro's voice control circuitry, which turns spoken words into a sequence of light impulses: Sparko stands at the rear of the stage. The command circuits now connected to him and not Elektro. He is activated with the usual start up sequence, 3-1-2, "Hey - Spar - ko ... it's ... your - turn." The dog walked forward about five steps and stopped. The operator then said, "Now - Spar - ko ... do ... your - tricks." Again the same 3-1-2 sequence to activate the next command. The dog barked, sat down, sat up and begged, turned his head, returned to sit, then turned his head and barked once, as if to say "How did I do, Master?"
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Tadanori Yokoo
Art Now
1971
Poster
Printed lower left: TADANORI YOKOO
Gift of the designer
Offset lithograph
28 5/8 x 20 1/4" (72.7 x 51.4 cm)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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