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The namesake for this robot and related photograph, Mark Pauline (born 1953), is a performance artist, inventor and the founder and proprietor of Survival Research Laboratories (SRL). Founded by Pauline in 1978, SRL is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform.

Les Blank (1935 – 2013) was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians. Most of his films focused on American traditional music forms, including (among others) blues, Appalachian, Cajun, Creole,Tex-Mex, polka, tamburitza, and Hawaiian music. Many of these films represent the only filmed documents of musicians who are now deceased. His production company, Flower Films, produced several films including God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us When We Dance (1967) The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins (1968) and The Sun's Gonna Shine (1968). In 2007, Blank was awarded the prestigious Edward MacDowell Medal in the Arts. Les Blank was a resident of Berkeley, California, for more than thirty years. He passed away in his Berkeley Hills home in 2013.

The namesake for this sculpture and related photograph is Emory Douglas (born 1943).  Douglas worked as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. His graphic art was featured in most issues of the newspaper The Black Panther (which had a peak circulation of 139,000 per week in 1970). As the art director, designer, and main illustrator for The Black Panther newspaper, Douglas created images that became icons, representing black American struggles during the 1960s and 1970s. After the 2006 publication of a comprehensive monograph titled Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, Douglas had retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York. Since the re-introduction of his early work to new audiences, Emory Douglas continues to make new work, exhibit and interact with audiences in formal and informal settings all over the world.

Martha Wilson (born 1947) is an American feminist performance artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace art organization. Over the past four decades she has developed and "created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformation, and 'invasions' of other people’s personas.” She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. In the early 1970s while studying in Halifax in Nova Scotia, she began to make videos and photo/text based performances. When she moved to New York City in 1974, she continued to develop and explore her photo/text and video performances. From this and other works during her career, she gained attention for her provocative characters, costumes, works and performances. In 1976, she founded and became director of the Franklin Furnace Archive, which is an artist-run space that focuses on the exploration and promotion of artists’ books, installation art, video and performance art.

Martha Wilson (born 1947) is an American feminist performance artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace art organization. Over the past four decades she has developed and "created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformation, and 'invasions' of other people’s personas.” She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. In the early 1970s while studying in Halifax in Nova Scotia, she began to make videos and photo/text based performances. When she moved to New York City in 1974, she continued to develop and explore her photo/text and video performances. From this and other works during her career, she gained attention for her provocative characters, costumes, works and performances. In 1976, she founded and became director of the Franklin Furnace Archive, which is an artist-run space that focuses on the exploration and promotion of artists’ books, installation art, video and performance art.

Martha Wilson (born 1947) is an American feminist performance artist and the founding director of Franklin Furnace art organization. Over the past four decades she has developed and "created innovative photographic and video works that explore her female subjectivity through role-playing, costume transformation, and 'invasions' of other people’s personas.” She is a recipient of two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships and a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship. In the early 1970s while studying in Halifax in Nova Scotia, she began to make videos and photo/text based performances. When she moved to New York City in 1974, she continued to develop and explore her photo/text and video performances. From this and other works during her career, she gained attention for her provocative characters, costumes, works and performances. In 1976, she founded and became director of the Franklin Furnace Archive, which is an artist-run space that focuses on the exploration and promotion of artists’ books, installation art, video and performance art.

The namesake for this photo and related sculpture is Lawrence Ferlinghetti (born 1919), an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers in San Francisco, California.  Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for A Coney Island of the Mind (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies. He has received numerous awards including The National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award (2005) and Douglas MacAgy Distinguished Achievement Award from the San Francisco Art Institute given for outstanding service to the American literary community (2012). Lawrence Ferlinghetti lives and works in San Francisco, California.

The namesake for this photograph and related robot, Mark Pauline (born 1953), is a performance artist, inventor and the founder and proprietor of Survival Research Laboratories (SRL). Founded by Pauline in 1978, SRL is considered the premier practitioner of "industrial performing arts", and the forerunner of large scale machine performance. SRL is known for producing the most dangerous shows on earth. Although acknowledged as a major influence on popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other, such as BattleBots and Robot Wars, Pauline shies away from rules-bound competition preferring a more anarchic approach. Machines are liberated and re-configured away from the functions they were originally meant to perform.

Les Blank (1935 – 2013) was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians. Most of his films focused on American traditional music forms, including (among others) blues, Appalachian, Cajun, Creole,Tex-Mex, polka, tamburitza, and Hawaiian music. Many of these films represent the only filmed documents of musicians who are now deceased. His production company, Flower Films, produced several films including God Respects Us When We Work But Loves Us When We Dance (1967) The Blues Accordin' To Lightnin' Hopkins (1968) and The Sun's Gonna Shine (1968). In 2007, Blank was awarded the prestigious Edward MacDowell Medal in the Arts. Les Blank was a resident of Berkeley, California, for more than thirty years. He passed away in his Berkeley Hills home in 2013.

The namesake of this work, Chris Johanson (born 1968), is an American painter, street artist, performer and a member of San Francisco's Mission School art movement. Emerging from the rich cultural milieu surrounding San Francisco in the 1990s, he gained widespread attention for his participation in the 2002 Whitney Biennial. Johanson has exhibited widely in museums and galleries internationally over the past decade. He has had solo exhibitions at museums including the Malmo Konsthall, 2011; Portland Art Museum, 2007; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2003; and the UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001. Johanson is the founder of the Quiet Music Festival in Portland, Oregon.

The namesake for this photograph and related sculpture is Emory Douglas (born 1943).  Douglas worked as the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party from 1967 until the Party disbanded in the 1980s. His graphic art was featured in most issues of the newspaper The Black Panther (which had a peak circulation of 139,000 per week in 1970). As the art director, designer, and main illustrator for The Black Panther newspaper, Douglas created images that became icons, representing black American struggles during the 1960s and 1970s. After the 2006 publication of a comprehensive monograph titled Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, Douglas had retrospective exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and the New Museum in New York. Since the re-introduction of his early work to new audiences, Emory Douglas continues to make new work, exhibit and interact with audiences in formal and informal settings all over the world.