Repeat After Me:BotMerica,BotMerica,Bot

Repeat After Me BotMerica,BotMerica,Bot Images by Jay Tyrrell Poetry by Tim Stiles Archival pigment prints 11x14, book proposed Repeat After Me is collaboration between two artists in the centuries long tradition of political cartoons and satire. Political cartoons or editorial cartoons consist of two elements: caricature used in the image and allusion in the comment. Current events in America generate a rich vein to mine for inspiration including; inequality, social mores, protest and of course the political times we live in. BotMerica is an imagined place, so please consider this guide The carefully ordered world of BotMerica is unsettled. The Original Engineers spent decades constructing a hierarchy of haves and have nots to ensure maximum consumption of all of industry’s output. Marketing and advertising engineers worked tireless hours to develop software to gerrymander desire. As society grew, and became more complex ,the balances between the classes have came under pressure Despite the Asimov Conventions for Bot society, the NotBots are demanding equality and a fair distribution of charging stations. The HavBots , swollen larger, are even more powerful in contradiction of their designed role. This isn’t what The Original Engineers envisioned when they coded the Asimov Conventions and created BotMerica. Everything has to be rewritten. They have become us.