Sometimes referred to as Cyberpunk or Steampunk, these transhuman sculptures reflect a dystopian mashup of humanity's past and future. Influences include City of Lost Children, Fallout 3, Bioshock, Diamond Age, The Difference Engine and Leonardo da Vinci.

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This is just a taste of the next DIY telepresence robot build from Gomi Style. It uses a Roomba, Mac Mini, Lilliput LCD, and a bunch of other bits and pieces.

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Avatar portraits of Barack Obama created on the Xbox 360. As a statesman (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08), counter-terrorist (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six VEGAS), negotiator (World Series of Poker) and Fighter (FaceBreaker).

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A Honda Rebel motorcycle is converted to a zero emissions electric chopper. Made the Gomi way, with mostly found and scavenged materials, we make a street legal commuter bike perfect for San Francisco.

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A DIY lifestyle and design show created by San Francisco Bay Area robot makers, artists and engineers using found objects, recycled materials, and technology.

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One man's quest for Design stardom. No challenge is too big, dangerous or illegal for Marque and his trusty crew of "Art Commandos" when they set out to get their TV show made and broadcast
- by any means nessesary.

The line between what's trash and what's treasure blurs and then
vanishes entirely in this original and entertaining 5 minute
pilot.

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Avatar portraits of Barack Obama created on the Xbox 360. As a statesman (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08), counter-terrorist (Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six VEGAS), negotiator (World Series of Poker) and Fighter (FaceBreaker).

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Voyage into the Uncanny Valley - a portrait series of Boing Boing TV's Xeni Jardin created by artist Marque Cornblatt. Each was created using Xbox 360 video games, including Fallout 3, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08, World Series of Poker and Saints Row.

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The self portrait as a distinct art genre can be used as a guide - a thematic constant against which a larger world view can be observed. The evolution of artist's tools and techniques, as well as changes in social, political and cultural views of the world can be traced through the history of self portraits, from the earliest cave paintings through contemporary practices.

These pieces are self portrait performances executed in virtual space within various games available on the Xbox 360 game console. The artist's avatar, performance, and all other elements were created using the "character creation" tools provided within each game. There was no use of hacking, programing, or other methods beyond the options provided within the game itself used to augment each piece. The inherent limitations of the game tools present a conceptual challenge to craft and perform digital representations of the self - with behaviors and actions - which reflect the true nature of the artist's personae, vs. the essentialized, violent male character presumed by the game's designers.

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Sometimes referred to as Cyberpunk or Steampunk, these transhuman sculptures reflect a dystopian mashup of humanity's past and future. Influences include City of Lost Children, Fallout 3, Bioshock, Diamond Age, The Difference Engine and Leonardo da Vinci.

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The Marque Machine is a self-portrait sculpture made from found objects, scavenged materials, and antiquated technology.

The pedistal is a wooden monolith found outside an artist studio. Inside of the retangular plexiglass box resides a video monitor submerged in clear liquid and playing a video loop of the artist's eyes. The deep meditative chanting of Tibetan Kyoto Monks can be heard quietly eminating from the piece. Seemingly defying logic, the submerged monitor operates without any interferance from the bubbling fluid.

The material nature of the sculpture conjures images of a machine-human hybrid - a being with both organic and mechinical qualities. This hybrid entity is made all the more uncanny by the way it serenely gazes back at the observer, creating a dynamic non-verbal dialogue between the sculpture and the viewer.

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For centuries the use of tools by humans has been used as a marker - one of several gauges of that particular quality that define humans as unique and self-aware beings. Over the millennia, the development and use of certain tools has effected the quality of life so profoundly, that one can scarcely imagine life without their use. Language, social structures, medicine, electricity, mass communication.

There exists in our culture the promise of technological solutions to every need, problem and issue associated with the human condition, from the basic needs of food and shelter, to more sophisticated requirements of the human animal - fast food, financial credit, internet dating, artificial hearts, and MTV. Attempts to meet these needs with technology comes in a variety of forms - from AT & T providing lengthy and complex exchanges of information without the customer ever speaking with a live operator, to computer controlled medical implants monitoring and performing an increasing number of metabolic and physiological functions in the human body.

The conceptual cornerstones of "that which makes humans unique" continue to be challenged and defeated. Internally, in the case of medical advancements, and externally - as demonstrated by the increasing number of "human" interactions which no longer have two humans participating. Identity and self-awareness are no longer the exclusive terrain of human beings. We live in the age of the "transhuman" being.

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