A menagerie of medical machines join forces in The Immortal, a new project by artist Revital Cohen. The tangled mass of life-support devices are hacked to support each other, detached from their usual human hosts. In the project, a dialysis machine, heart-lung machine, infant incubator, mechanical ventilator and an intraoperative cell salvage machine are linked together in a closed loop. Several of the devices have been “dumbed down,” as Cohen puts it, to interface with each other and accept a saline solution, which circulates through the myriad tubes and pipes.
