(n)certainties – Die Angewandte – Fall 2008

I found myself in this specific situation for the first time in my life, i’m laying without move somewhere, i’m not quite sure where. I tried to remember how did it happened that i’m here now, but i’m affraid that it is impossible without access to my memory bones. Considering my position, i can guess that i have fallen down from 2 or 3 meters and stuck here unconsious already for a while.i’m laying on the back, if a single arm could say so. I find the feeling that i don’t need to do anything, very surprising. As a matter of fact i even think that without rest of me i have quite reflexive nature. For example, this morning at 5:03:36 I’ve noticed a big piece of colourful rubber rolled lazyly along my shields by the stream of a hot air, i could feel my plastic skin reflecting its colours, and smooth surfaces. I realised that this shapeless form is a part of a bigger body, exactly like me. i’m not eye, but with slight aproximation i could risk to say that it was a hand of a toy gorilla. I was musing upon this coincidence for whole morning. In afternoon i felt uneasy, but in the evening i was already sure that i’m completly cold. dead, so to say. Next days conciousness of not living infiltrated my operational system with this image, reshaping my subsystems with a commands of counter acting, penetrating my circuits with modified protocols. At the end of the week I was remodeled. Please, don’t get me wrong, i remained the same but with kind of a new attitude to life. Attitude of my personal mangement code ofcourse. Now i’m waiting to observe my new behaviour…

to refer you what happened next days, I have to tell you what am I precisily. You already know that i’m an arm, a part of some bigger machine. I cannot tell you what I was made for, what where my real tasks, becouse, I simply don’t rember. However I can quickly describe you my components. First of all I consist of an energy accumulating system. I process temperature to charge my batteries, which are located next to my joints. At the end of me, I have a roto-head on which are some small adapters able to change their profiles constantly, heater and cooler, and vacumeiser to blow and suck heated material. My bottom is equiped with a mechanism wich allows me to connect with a surface and move on it. I’m covered with a plastic shield protecting me from mechanical injuries. to uderstand my present actions, it is important to know that i’m fit with an autonomic system of control, which allows me to proceed for my own, so without rest of the body, but in a limited scope.