About: from wikipedia: Mark Pauline (born Dec 14, 1953) is an American Performance Artist and Inventor, best known as founder and director of Survival Research Labs, a performance group whose installations are typically composed of machines and robots creating as much mayhem as the safety of onlookers permits. Pauline founded the group in 1978 and it is considered the main forebear of practitioners of "industrial performing arts" and of popular competitions pitting remote-controlled robots and machines against each other (see BattleBots and Robot Wars).

Pauline has written of SRL, "Since its inception SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry,

Survival Research Labs
Witness a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices as socio-political satire. Humans are present only as audience or operators.