Autopoietic Turing Machine realizes an imagined, absurd future in which people are no longer needed for the mental effort of programming. With its title derived from the Greek autopoesis, ‘self-creation,’ this sculpture is a pair of robotic hands that continuously edit their own controller code. I invite the viewer into an ostensibly paradoxical, yet internally consistent, cybernetic loop of a system whose sole purpose is to reprogram itself repeatedly while relying on a physical simulation of human hands.
Autopoietic Turing Machine probes the Cartesian split in computer science: mind / body :: software / hardware.

What does it mean to be a human programmer now, when algorithms are able to edit their own code? To what degree are human beings the embodied information processing prosthetics of code? I hope to provoke speculation about these questions with my art.