Douglas Repetto and Wayne Coyne conversation in Helio magazine

Douglas Repetto, who makes wonderful art, music, and robots, talks with Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne in the new Helio magazine.

 Wp-Content Uploads Image Douglas Repetto Walking Tab Repetto: I've kind of moved away from music and performance. I work a lot more know with machines and things like that, but what compelled me to do that is because it brings me to these questions about what does it mean when it's not a human being doing these things. Because that's certainly a part of contemporary life, a sense of loss of control, a sense of hoping that there is some goodwill in these systems that you have to give your life over to. What I'm doing, I'm not making paintings [with this giant painting machine], I'm not making claims like I would be if I were a painter. Rather, I'm making a system that's doing this thing that looks like a painting, but it's doing something quite different. I think it draws people, thinking, what is this thing then? How can it be expressive? What would it mean to be expressive? Or what would it mean for it to touch me? For me it could still be very touching, and it could be very expressive.

Shown here: Foal, a newborn walking table, built and photographed by Repetto. Link