Anton Perich Presents: Dave Street, Angry Punks (1978) 

Anton Perich Presents: Dave Street, Angry Punks
With James Chance, Anya Phillips, Lydia Lunch, James O’Connell
210 5th Ave.
NYC 1978
Pictured in background: Anton Perich’s electric painting machine
In 1977, Perich developed and built an electric painting machine. Comprised of a motor, photocell, airbrushes, and bicycle chains mounted on a large metal framework, it stands as the first of its kind: in 2006, the New York Academy of Science’s Science and the City named the invention a “predecessor to the inkjet printer.” In his diary, Andy Warhol wrote of Perich’s machine, “Anton was at home with his painting machine and I was so jealous. My dream. To have a machine that could paint while you’re away.”
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