Machines of Joy
Light installation, 2025, DEVCON Buenos Aires

“Artists do not create objects, but create by way of objects.” James P. Carse, Infinite Games

Machines of Joy is an electronic garden composed of light-emitting robots and electronic waste. Conceived as a small universe of its own, the installation constructs a system in which material, conceptual, and informational elements interact through circulating signals.

The title reflects the intention to create devices that, although built from discarded technology, emit light, color, and movement capable of evoking perceptual connection. These machines are not tools of utility but instruments of sensation, inviting viewers to engage with the interplay between artificial and natural elements. Through their motion and luminosity, they suggest forms of renewal, transforming electronic waste into sources of vitality and poetic experience.

The installation draws inspiration from the apparent movement of the sun around the Earth and the atmospheric colors it generates. Each robot reproduces gradients drawn from the sky and is designed to sense and respond to their surroundings in movements recalling the rhythms of planetary motion. The installation turns these natural phenomena into poetic objects, approaching light through both its physical qualities and its sensible effects, and drawing on knowledge about natural light to reveal its emotional resonance and its relationship with the universe.
It was presented in the group exhibition Echoing as one, which took place during the Ethereum International Conference in November 2025 in Buenos Aires.


ph: Tomo Saito & Delfina Levi