Mechanical Buddas

Artist: Wang Zi Won
http://vimeo.com/19080059

"The artist predicts that in the future humans will evolve and adapt themselves to enhanced science and technology just as men and animals in the past evolved to adapt themselves to their natural circumstances. He sees this future as our destiny, not as a negative, gloomy dystopia. His work is thus based on neither utopia not dystopia. Wang represents the relations between man, technology and science through the bodies of cyborgs." -Colossal

"The artist considers it important to escape from human bondage in order to achieve harmony between men and machines. He thinks this harmony can be achieved through the process of religious practices and spiritual enlightenment. In Buddhism, the Bodhisattva of Compassion helps people attain enlightenment, Arhat is a spiritual practitioner of asceticism, and Buddha is a being who reaches the highest level of enlightenment. Through them, the artist intends to follow the path of enlightenment, breaking away from anxiety, agony, and pain. The artist has no intention to emphasize religious connotations through these Buddhist icons but to reflect his own or our own existence between utopia and dystopia." -Shin Seung-ho of Dukwon Gallery

It's an artwork including religious meaning. The artist wants people to think of nature and science.
I have an idea: Make real buddhas by gold and settle them in a Buddhist temple. There are many cushions,which has sensor inside to sense pressure, for religionists to kneel on, each cushion connects to one hand of a buddha. When a religionist kneel on it and pray, the buddha's hand raises. It is like the god is listening.