The Voting Machine was an experiment in democracy carried out by a group of 20 students at UCLA's Design | Media Arts school in the Spring of 2008. The students worked together for 8 weeks to produce a fully functional voting machine comprised of 20 individual modules.
The modules communicated with one another through either physical or electrical signals which carried a vote through all 20 modules until its final destination where it was counted.
After many diplomatic and not so diplomatic discussions, two coalitions were established and the final form and function of the machine fell into place. On (date) the final product was successfully deployed in a race between two entirely conceptual political parties, The Dreamers of Decadence and Redesigning Humans.
Project moderated by C.E.B. Reas and Michael Kontopoulos.
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The second to last module is the resting place for the pennies. It counts the votes and provides an ironic reference to antiquated technology. This process illustrates and reinforces the idea that the past is the foundation for the future.
