I Love You Machine

Yale Art & Architecture Gallery, New Haven, CT

April 1999

Epoxy resin, brass, acrylic, lights, mechanical components

20 ft x 20 ft x 4 ft

I Love You Machine connects a pair of internally illuminated epoxy resin castings connected together by an analog machine that uses a pair of rotating machined brass discs to cause the castings to flash “I-L-O-V-E-Y-O-U” in Morse code back and forth to each other in an ongoing loop.  The machine was designed to emulate early computing devices such as Pascal’s Calculator; one of the first modern attempts to use a machine for cognitive rather than manual labor. 

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