 bios [bible], 2007 The artist group robotlab takes up the issue of how people and machines relate: using industrial robots situations are deliberately caused, where the machine performs activities which are usually are subject to human culture. In the installation bios [bible], an industrial robot copies out the Bible in "handwriting." It performs calligraphic precision-work with a quill, like a monk in a monastery's scriptorium. In this way, two fundamentally different systems are related to each other: the formal noting of information and scripture as a basis for religion – scientific rationality and faith. bios [bible] (re)produces the entire Bible in seven months. The rolls of writing are subsequently deposited in the installation's "library." robotlab Matthias Gommel, * 1970, Martina Haitz, * 1970, Jan Zappe, * 1969, live and work in Karlsruhe (D)  robotlab, bios [bible], 2007robot installation, dimensions variable Installation view ZKM | Karlsruhe, 2007 courtesy robotlab produced in cooperation with ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe photo: robotlab With kind support of KUKA, Wintopo, Papier Union, Lamy, Armstrong, Cordier
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