It is enjoyable, doing away with modern technology. Levers, pulleys and clunky buttons are relatively slow to respond; faces on figures are distorted and comical, just as they were 20, 30 years ago; in place of elaborate software are simple flashing lights, cranks, switches. I’m 35, but an old 35: Novelty Automation shines a light on the basic construction of my childhood, long before emails became the first instance of the day and Elon Musk started terrifying us all with his rampant march towards an AI dictatorship.
Hidden London: Novelty Automation, Holborn
