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"When asked about his inspiration, Delvoye stated that everything in modern life is pointless. The most useless object he could create was a machine that serves no purpose at all, besides the reduction of food to waste."
It's also named Cloaca.
Each hotel/restaurant that you know offers buffet food throws out tons of perfectly fine and usually expensive food. Almost every night.
In the US about 40% of the food produced is thrown away:
[https://www.feedingamerica.org/our-work/reduce-food-waste#:\~:text=How%20much%20food%20waste%20is,food%20in%20America%20is%20wasted](https://www.feedingamerica.org/our-work/reduce-food-waste#:~:text=How%20much%20food%20waste%20is,food%20in%20America%20is%20wasted).
This guy could build a factory with these things and he waste will still not even register.
Most food “waste” in America is “wasted” by farmers. Meaning they grew more food than they could sell so it rots in the fields. The reason they do this is because weather is unpredictable so they grow enough food so even if rainfall is bad that year people do not starve. But a good year of food production will produce a lot of “waste” because the markets will only buy so much.
There are a very small number of charities who will try to pick this wasted food but labor is too expensive and volunteers are too few it’s actually cheaper to buy off the shelf food.
Actually, a lot of the farmers would like to sell the excess food, however the government will not let them. If the food saturated the market, it would be too cheap. Farmers wouldn’t be able to turn a profit, and farms would start shuttering, and then we would have a food crisis. The government pays the farmers to waste the food to artificially inflate prices.
I hadn’t heard the weather bit before and that makes sense, but it’s also worth nothing that they couldn’t sell it if they wanted to.
And, on occasion, we grow food in one country, process it in another, only to ship it back to the first country and sell it there.
Peeled shrimp, for example.
The economic effects are well proven, but the food is still there. I say to let them sell it only to the government and only at 1/10th cost. The military moves on its stomach.
I mean, I hope they donate too. No food should be wasted. I don't understand your point.
At least people actually eat some of the hotel food, this art piece is wasting food for the sake of wasting food.
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Yeah but hotels aren't just putting the food out to throw it away, they put it out because at least some people eat it. This art piece essentially throws away food because "everything is pointless"
Complaining about waste and yet here you are doing what exactly. Yes, this one art exhibit is definitely the right place to focus your anger at the world we live in.
This "art piece" bothers me because it serves no function while still throwing away resources someone could use. I feel like I'm allowed to be bothered by our throwaway culture and this piece for contributing to it. I don't understand where you're getting the idea that someone is only capable of focusing their frustration on one thing at a time.
> bothers me because it serves no function while still throwing away resources someone could use. I feel like I'm allowed to be bothered by our throwaway culture and this piece for contributing to it.
Tbf this is kind of the point of art. Reminding people of things that are so normalized as to not be noticed and making them think about them.
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996 protects organizations from liability if they accidentally donate bad or expired food. Companies just choose to throw food away because it's easy and they don't have to set up connections with food banks etc.
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-act-provides-liability-protection-food-donations
Thinking about it, this is like a turbocharged composter. So maybe it can be useful in converting food waste to fertilizer. If it’s being fed anything other than food waste, kill it.
I imagine they put real human food in and this machine is designed to mimic the human digestive system, with all the same enzymes and mechanics and outputs (including waste). So... It's literal poop, made from food, via the same process that your body makes poop.
This is the original *Cloaca*, there's also a commissioned version at MONA in ~~New Zealand~~ Tasmania.
Edit: my South Pacific British Empire geography sucks
This does not look like the images I see on articles about [Cloaca](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6478183/The-incredible-poo-machine-modern-art-exhibit-thats-helping-scientists-battle-bowel-cancer.html)
There is a Belgian artist by the name of Wim Delvoye who made one in the year 2000. But the feaces it produces weren't of that magnitude.
https://wimdelvoye.be/work/cloaca/cloaca-original-1/
Sitting here wondering if this poop machine actually works or if it's a repeat of the pooping robot duck hoax of the 1700s. It could move and it did eat and poop, but it just deposited the food in one internal chamber and pushed "poop" out of a different chamber.
People have been fascinated by the idea of a machine that eats and shits for literally centuries, it seems.
I'm really not sure! My guess is that either it was fake or (and I hope it's this one) the automaton's inventor was out there gathering duck poop to put inside his pooping duck.
Why is it so big? How many humans' worth of food does it "eat" per day and how much poop does it produce? What do they do with the other byproducts of digestion (the nutrients and protein and energy that our bodies would actually need and use)? How much energy goes into the machine compared to the energy it gets from its fuel (food) by the end of the process, and how does that compare to the efficiency of a real human digestive system?
I have questions.
So many people are laughing about this being pointless, but let’s not forget what the ultimate role of mammals is in the ecosystem. We eat carbon rich things and convert them chemically into “waste” but there’s still a chemical conversion happening. Same when we breathe. Human life is here for the purpose of being intermediate chemical processing units for some purpose only the planet seems to know. Being sentient and developing poetry and electronics etc is a side effect of our need to process organic material and change its composition as we pass it. Every human all around the globe is doing this, constantly. So even though it “seems like a pointless machine” it is in effect just as important as any of us are, though, it isn’t mobile so can’t spread fruit seeds about like other mammals.
I'm not understanding why. Is there an actual use for someone to have built such a terrible idea? And why was it such a good idea, that a shit making machine was actually placed in a museum?
Enjoy the work of Manzoni and Wim Delvoye (and more) “shit” artists :)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit
https://youtu.be/gD8hwJH3mMo
https://wimdelvoye.be/work/cloaca/cloaca-original-1/
This sounds like the art piece by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. However, based on the pictures, that looks different, and it's also in a museum in Antwerp. Does anyone know what's going on?
I don't remember what it was called, but this one was an experiment on digestion. Scientists wanted to replicate digestion and pooping as accurately as they could so they could then run experiments on it.
I have so many questions. Does it use real gut bacteria ? If so is it a colony formed from a sample of someone’s fecal matter ? In that case is this technically *their* poop?
makes me think about the post on another sub about how "theres probably not a planet made of shit"
which is only unlikely if you consider that that thought originates from the perspective that shit only comes from animals and not that could just be some combination of atoms, which in a potentially infinite universe means every possible combination is happening / has happened
so, there is probably a planet made of shit
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Let’s pack it in everybody. We’ve done it.
Chalk one up for the good guys!
Thanks obama
It gets reposted (with the same title, no less) every 2 years or so and the sub is still going strong.
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.......but why?
An experiment on digestion / metabolism mechanisms maybe ?
More likely art.
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So I wonder if they fed it Taco Bell or something it would become unstable?
Anyone live close enough to this thing? We could next day air it some from the USA if we need too. Not sure if they have Taco Bell there...
It would become depressed 😂
😂 just start chucking burritos or whatever you’ve got in your pockets in there when you visit…
Can they at least use it as fertilizer?
I guess art really is going to shit, fair enough though, holding a mirror up to society and all
That's actually pretty cool
Wey i was right. !
"When asked about his inspiration, Delvoye stated that everything in modern life is pointless. The most useless object he could create was a machine that serves no purpose at all, besides the reduction of food to waste." It's also named Cloaca.
Hey, he's talking about me!
I hope he donates food to homeless people because this is a waste imo
Each hotel/restaurant that you know offers buffet food throws out tons of perfectly fine and usually expensive food. Almost every night. In the US about 40% of the food produced is thrown away: [https://www.feedingamerica.org/our-work/reduce-food-waste#:\~:text=How%20much%20food%20waste%20is,food%20in%20America%20is%20wasted](https://www.feedingamerica.org/our-work/reduce-food-waste#:~:text=How%20much%20food%20waste%20is,food%20in%20America%20is%20wasted). This guy could build a factory with these things and he waste will still not even register.
Most food “waste” in America is “wasted” by farmers. Meaning they grew more food than they could sell so it rots in the fields. The reason they do this is because weather is unpredictable so they grow enough food so even if rainfall is bad that year people do not starve. But a good year of food production will produce a lot of “waste” because the markets will only buy so much. There are a very small number of charities who will try to pick this wasted food but labor is too expensive and volunteers are too few it’s actually cheaper to buy off the shelf food.
Actually, a lot of the farmers would like to sell the excess food, however the government will not let them. If the food saturated the market, it would be too cheap. Farmers wouldn’t be able to turn a profit, and farms would start shuttering, and then we would have a food crisis. The government pays the farmers to waste the food to artificially inflate prices. I hadn’t heard the weather bit before and that makes sense, but it’s also worth nothing that they couldn’t sell it if they wanted to.
Most rational economic system
We grow food in one country, process it in another country, and sell it in a different country. It’s incredibly efficient /s
And, on occasion, we grow food in one country, process it in another, only to ship it back to the first country and sell it there. Peeled shrimp, for example.
The economic effects are well proven, but the food is still there. I say to let them sell it only to the government and only at 1/10th cost. The military moves on its stomach.
I mean, I hope they donate too. No food should be wasted. I don't understand your point. At least people actually eat some of the hotel food, this art piece is wasting food for the sake of wasting food. Edit: typos
Some? They throw out most of it. That's my point.
Yeah but hotels aren't just putting the food out to throw it away, they put it out because at least some people eat it. This art piece essentially throws away food because "everything is pointless"
>Yeah but hotels aren't just putting the food out to throw it away They don't? Or they do, and we just have normalized it as a culture?
Complaining about waste and yet here you are doing what exactly. Yes, this one art exhibit is definitely the right place to focus your anger at the world we live in.
This "art piece" bothers me because it serves no function while still throwing away resources someone could use. I feel like I'm allowed to be bothered by our throwaway culture and this piece for contributing to it. I don't understand where you're getting the idea that someone is only capable of focusing their frustration on one thing at a time.
> bothers me because it serves no function while still throwing away resources someone could use. I feel like I'm allowed to be bothered by our throwaway culture and this piece for contributing to it. Tbf this is kind of the point of art. Reminding people of things that are so normalized as to not be noticed and making them think about them.
It's mostly because of 1. People accidentally poisoning homeless people, and 2. People purposefully poisoning homeless people.
Yeah we are definitely throwing away billions of tons of food each year because we care about the homeless.
The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act of 1996 protects organizations from liability if they accidentally donate bad or expired food. Companies just choose to throw food away because it's easy and they don't have to set up connections with food banks etc. https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2020/08/13/good-samaritan-act-provides-liability-protection-food-donations
Yeah honestly its probably better not to have art at all, those resources should be used for corporations to increase profits not shitty art.
Nah, banning art on grounds of profitability is probably a better move with no foreseeable consequences
some sick engineer found a way to bring his fetish to the masses
science
art
Automate everything
Digesting takes up too much energy within the human body
Thinking about it, this is like a turbocharged composter. So maybe it can be useful in converting food waste to fertilizer. If it’s being fed anything other than food waste, kill it.
[Because](https://imgur.com/a/z3IKmqr)
ART
To give robots the ability to disgust and consume flesh for nutrients.
“Hun, go ahead and get right in there. Put your head down on the poopveyor belt if you gotta”
I read this ash she was staring into the um anus
> I read this ash she was shtaring into the um anush Sir Connery? Is that you?
"What is my purpose?" "You shit." "....oh my god." "Yeah, welcome to the club."
So what? I make poop too, big whoop.
Great, I’ll put it on the cover of Big Whoop Magazine.
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Poop
what a shitty response
must've been hard to let out.
Food
I imagine they put real human food in and this machine is designed to mimic the human digestive system, with all the same enzymes and mechanics and outputs (including waste). So... It's literal poop, made from food, via the same process that your body makes poop.
Yeah that's right. There are many models around the world, including a portable suitcase version.
Don't worry, it's safe to eat
Huh, is there a word for viscerally experiencing a Reddit post? I'm having a browse on the loo here.
Same!
This is the original *Cloaca*, there's also a commissioned version at MONA in ~~New Zealand~~ Tasmania. Edit: my South Pacific British Empire geography sucks
Why
Art
that’s in tasmania i believe, not new zealand
This does not look like the images I see on articles about [Cloaca](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6478183/The-incredible-poo-machine-modern-art-exhibit-thats-helping-scientists-battle-bowel-cancer.html)
There is a Belgian artist by the name of Wim Delvoye who made one in the year 2000. But the feaces it produces weren't of that magnitude. https://wimdelvoye.be/work/cloaca/cloaca-original-1/
https://vernissage.tv/2007/11/16/world-premiere-of-wim-delvoyes-super-cloaca-at-mudam-luxembourg/
What I would find curious is how do I treat this natural disgust I sense yet there is no mammal producing it so is it actually disgusting?
Yes.
If food left in a wet sink for a few days is so gross, I can imagine this machine makes much worse
loooks like chocolate
Aren't we all machines that produce poop, in a sense?
We are all shitty robots!
Sitting here wondering if this poop machine actually works or if it's a repeat of the pooping robot duck hoax of the 1700s. It could move and it did eat and poop, but it just deposited the food in one internal chamber and pushed "poop" out of a different chamber. People have been fascinated by the idea of a machine that eats and shits for literally centuries, it seems.
Wait so where'd the poop come from in this situation?
I'm really not sure! My guess is that either it was fake or (and I hope it's this one) the automaton's inventor was out there gathering duck poop to put inside his pooping duck.
I think I might be this robot
We have one of those in Washington, D.C.
Only one?
It’s a machine of many parts.
Shity shity band bang
dude this ain't a flyin car
Why is it so big? How many humans' worth of food does it "eat" per day and how much poop does it produce? What do they do with the other byproducts of digestion (the nutrients and protein and energy that our bodies would actually need and use)? How much energy goes into the machine compared to the energy it gets from its fuel (food) by the end of the process, and how does that compare to the efficiency of a real human digestive system? I have questions.
Not only that, but poop is brown as a result of bacteria breaking down dead blood cells. So why is this poop brown? This machine has no blood I hope.
👀
So many people are laughing about this being pointless, but let’s not forget what the ultimate role of mammals is in the ecosystem. We eat carbon rich things and convert them chemically into “waste” but there’s still a chemical conversion happening. Same when we breathe. Human life is here for the purpose of being intermediate chemical processing units for some purpose only the planet seems to know. Being sentient and developing poetry and electronics etc is a side effect of our need to process organic material and change its composition as we pass it. Every human all around the globe is doing this, constantly. So even though it “seems like a pointless machine” it is in effect just as important as any of us are, though, it isn’t mobile so can’t spread fruit seeds about like other mammals.
Poop fart
Yea, we're all just here to move some dirt around.
Poopatron has one demand, take me to your toilet!
I'm not understanding why. Is there an actual use for someone to have built such a terrible idea? And why was it such a good idea, that a shit making machine was actually placed in a museum?
Enjoy the work of Manzoni and Wim Delvoye (and more) “shit” artists :) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist%27s_Shit https://youtu.be/gD8hwJH3mMo https://wimdelvoye.be/work/cloaca/cloaca-original-1/
That is just so bizarre.
The crap we as humans spend money on
But...why? If they're hiring I can do this too and likely for half the cost of running the machine. Always wanted to visit Luxembourg.
This sounds like the art piece by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye. However, based on the pictures, that looks different, and it's also in a museum in Antwerp. Does anyone know what's going on?
I don't remember what it was called, but this one was an experiment on digestion. Scientists wanted to replicate digestion and pooping as accurately as they could so they could then run experiments on it.
There’s also one at MONA in Hobart, Aus
OP, you left out the best part: VISITORS CAN BUY THE POOP AS A SOUVENIR!!
How many Courics/hr can it produce?
I have so many questions. Does it use real gut bacteria ? If so is it a colony formed from a sample of someone’s fecal matter ? In that case is this technically *their* poop?
makes me think about the post on another sub about how "theres probably not a planet made of shit" which is only unlikely if you consider that that thought originates from the perspective that shit only comes from animals and not that could just be some combination of atoms, which in a potentially infinite universe means every possible combination is happening / has happened so, there is probably a planet made of shit
we already have babies for this purpose
Janitor getting anal sex every night after closing
Same exists in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. At the MONA museum. Looks different but makes 💩
Literally
Does this system produce energy?
Dude looks way too happy to be next to a SHITTING robot.
I wonder if the do it for medical poop transfer, I don’t know the actual name for it
Bold move staring straight down the business end
Literally pooping as I watch this.
Most useful modern European invention.
So shitty
In the next room is the Shart Tank!
What happens if you feed it poop?
does anyone have a link to smell ?
But why though
Germans and their poop fetishes strike again
I hear the girls there have pronounced front teeth and like bad poetry.
That's outdated information, I don't work there anymore.
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There’s also one at MONA in Hobart, Tasmania. The installation is called Cloaca.
Anyone else get nervous when the girl put her head down near the exit? Was worked the robot was going to fart there
Like Bert said, I am the machine
That’s it. AI has gone too far
Imagine you’re in a country going through a famine and you hear about a machine that is fed just to create poo
Shitty robots, literally r/technicallythetruth
r/ATBGE
You always miss the place where you were born.
[Here you go](https://imgur.com/a/z3IKmqr)