Miami-based media and performance artist David Rohn, who started creating characters with the Drag artists in the heyday of Miami Beach club activity, will present The Amazing Ultran, a simulation of an animatronic fortune teller like the ones that were a fixture of Carnivals, Pier Parks and County Fairs in the last century, and which were themselves derived from the Seers and Fakhirs who were exotic fixture attractions dating back to Medieval Fairs.

For a dollar, the animatronic Ultran will deliver a written ‘fortune’ from his booth at the front of the SCOPE Pavilion. Rohn’s work, which has included 18th century French Aristocrats extolling the glories of force-fed goose liver pate as a metaphor for the over-consumption in some economies, to blow-up sex doll art collector-wives, and robotic silver-haired political candidates, typically involves interaction with a live made-up character. The animatronic fortune-teller follows ‘Art Dummy’—a depiction of a ventriloquist’s dummy which, as in the upcoming project, represented a real-life simulation of a simulation of real life human presence.