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Shows and Installations


Mark Pauline at dorkbotSF #47
18 November 2009
Tcho, San Francisco CA


SRL 30 Years and Mark Pauline 55
12 December 2008
Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco CA


Todd Blair Wall: Unveiled
19 July 2008
Rhythmix Culture Works, Alameda CA


Blue + Green Ball: A Benefit for Todd Blair
01 December 2007
SOMArts, San Francisco


A Complete Mastery of Sinister Forces: Employed with Callous Disregard to Produce Catastrophic Changes in the Natural Order of Events
SRL at Robodock
19-22 September 2007
NDSM Wharf, Amsterdam


Maker Faire Machine Demo
19-20 May 2007
San Mateo Fairgrounds, CA


GHOSTLY SCENES of INFERNAL DESECRATION: An SRL End of Days Production
In conjunction with ZeroOne/ISEA's Global Festival of Art on the Edge & the 13th International Symposium of Electronic Art
11 August 2006
behind South Hall of the SJ Convention Center
San Jose, CA

The Fish Boy's Dream
Fringe Exhibitions presents an inaugural exhibition and mini-show featuring the Sneaky Soldiers
21 January 2006
Fringe Exhibitions
504 Chung King Court
Los Angeles

RE/Search Party for JG Ballard CONVERSATIONS
Party, panel with Mark Pauline (SRL) and Graeme Revell (SPK) moderated by V.Vale, dynamic art installation
10 September 2005
Hayes Valley Market,
corner Hayes @ Laguna
San Francisco

LA ♥ SRL
2 April 2005
Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles

RE/Search Party for JG Ballard QUOTES
(Mark Pauline and crew reading excerpts from the book)
24 February 2005
City Lights Bookstore
North Beach, San Francisco

25 Year Anniversary
9 April 2004
The Lab
16th & Mission
San Francisco, CA

RE/Search Pranks! Festival
6 December 2003
The Lab
16th @ Mission
San Francisco, CA

Berkeley Art Museum Show
12 November 2003
UC Berkeley Art Museum
2626 Bancroft Way
Berkeley CA

Benefit for Tim North
25 March 2003
SOMARTS
934 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA

Epicenter Book Signing and Lecture
16 January 2003
SFMOMA Museum Store
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA

Tentacle Sessions 35: The Women of SRL
21 July 2002
Spanganga 19th St @ Mission
San Francisco, CA

Post Gallery Show
6 July 2002
Los Angeles, CA

Webbys 2002
18 June 2002
Performance at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

Pulse Jet Demo
23 March 2002
Benefit at Pier 33

ZeroOne: The Art of Extreme Robotics
13 March 2002
Sony Campus
San Jose, CA

Rhizome: The Art of Extreme Robotics
24 February 2002
Rocco's Cafe
Hollywood, CA

The Amy Show
19 January 2002
SOMARTS
934 Brannan @ 8th
San Francisco, CA

Berkeley Show
15 December 2001
The Shipyard
1010 Murray St
Berkeley, CA

Machines of Mayhem
08 September 2001
Artists Television Access
San Francisco, CA

Teslathon
14 July 2001
Hunters Point Naval Shipyard
San Francisco, CA

Lockjaw Fest: Pitching Machine Run
08 June 2001
Ace Auto Dismantlers
San Francisco, CA

Hovercraft Debut Run
28 April 2001
Eviction Defense Benefit
Oakland, CA


Video Premiere
04 November 2000
SRL Thoughtfully Regards: The Arbitrary Calculation of Pathological Amusement
David Therrien/Xero sponsored event
CheMLAB, Phoenix Arizona


SRL Thoughtfully Regards: The Arbitrary Calculation of Pathological Amusements
23 December 1999
NTT-ICC sponsored event Tokyo, Japan


BLF Event: Mark Pauline Early Billboard Modification Work on display at the Lab
March 1999
San Francisco, CA


Crime Wave Video Premiere at Cell
27 February 1999
San Francisco, CA


SRL Videos at ICC Japan
29 January 1999 - 22 March 1999


What Is Real
25 June 1998
San Francisco CA


SRL on TV
Check your local cable listings or The Discovery Channel for Robots Rising a 2 hour documentary with a segment on SRL airing on the Discovery Channel March 15, 1998 9:00pm EST


Sci-Fi Channel Shoot (Bioperfection: Building a New Human Race)
November 1997
SRL Yard San Francisco


Further Explorations in Lethal Experimentation
18 October 1997
ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany
SRL San Francisco, USA


Increasing the Latent Period in a System of Remote Destructibility
July 1997
ICC Tokyo, Japan and
SRL San Francisco, USA


The Unexpected Destruction of Elaborately Engineered Artifacts
A Misguided Adventure in Risk Eradication, Happening Without Known Cause, in Connection with Events that are Not Necessarily Related
28 March, 1997
Longhorn Speedway, Austin, TX


SRL Halloween Trick
in San Francsico, CA
31 October 1996


A Million Inconsiderate Experiments
in Phoenix, Arizona
27 January 1996


Funhouse Installation
in San Francisco
9 January 1996


Crime Wave Show
San Francisco
26 November 1995


A Calculated Forecast of Ultimate Doom:
Sickening Episodes of Widespread Devastation Accompanied by Sensations of Pleasurable Excitement

in San Francisco
28 May 1994


The Deliberate Evolution of a War Zone:
A Parable of Spontaneous Structural Disintegration

in Austria
24 October 1992


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