The Avactor

Ricardo Barreto
Maria Hsu, Marcos Paulo Moreti
Brazil

With the conception of abstract machines, a new era is inaugurated, as much in philosophy as in science and, we believe, also in the arts. What are abstract machines? For some, they are immanent and singular, for others they identify with the very human mind. In both cases one shares the idea that man is a machine. Not only his body, but also his subjectivity. In that sense, Andy Warhol was right in wanting to be a machine; however, the philosopher (Gilles Deleuze) and the scientist (Alan Turing) had known for a long time that they were abstract machines. I think, therefore I connect; I think, therefore I compute. These could be the new cogitos of those abstract machines. In sum: I think, therefore I am an abstract machine.

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