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Novelty Automation

Novelty Automation Official account for Tim Hunkin's arcade of homemade, satirical, coin-operated machines, twinned wit

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An invitation from Tim Hunkin!
31/01/2022

An invitation from Tim Hunkin!

A bag of gold - A perfect present for anybody. 33 tokens, enough to try every machine in the arcade. We are open today f...
30/12/2021

A bag of gold - A perfect present for anybody. 33 tokens, enough to try every machine in the arcade. We are open today from 12pm to 8pm. Please come and say hello!

A thank you from Tim Hunkin to a computer expert!
29/12/2021

A thank you from Tim Hunkin to a computer expert!

We are open today from 12 to 8pm!
22/07/2021

We are open today from 12 to 8pm!

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce: Novelty Automation is NOW opening on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturda...
22/07/2021

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce: Novelty Automation is NOW opening on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays!!!

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce: Novelty Automation is NOW opening on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays!
06/07/2021

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce: Novelty Automation is NOW opening on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays!

Tim Hunkin
01/06/2021

Tim Hunkin

Tim Hunkin
01/06/2021

Tim Hunkin

Tim Hunkin's NOVELTY AUTOMATION is open from 11am-6pm on Monday 31st May.
29/05/2021

Tim Hunkin's NOVELTY AUTOMATION is open from 11am-6pm on Monday 31st May.

PET OR MEAT - Settle the lamb's fate! Today's FREE LUNCHTIME MACHINE - Try playing it for free anytime from 12:30 - 2p...
20/05/2021

PET OR MEAT - Settle the lamb's fate! Today's FREE LUNCHTIME MACHINE - Try playing it for free anytime from 12:30 - 2pm.

20/05/2021

FREE LUNCHTIME MACHINE at Novelty Automation - Open today from 12:00pm to 8:00pm!

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce: Novelty Automation is re-opening next Saturday April 17th from 11am to 6pm!
10/04/2021

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce: Novelty Automation is re-opening next Saturday April 17th from 11am to 6pm!

Novelty Automation is currently closed.
08/01/2021

Novelty Automation is currently closed.

NOBBY 1997. "A commission to make a portrait of a local lifeboat man as a collection box for Jersey’s maritime museum. H...
09/12/2020

NOBBY 1997. "A commission to make a portrait of a local lifeboat man as a collection box for Jersey’s maritime museum. He rattles the money in his tin as you approach, and nods and puffs his pipe when you give him a coin."

JACK FROST 1987
06/12/2020

JACK FROST 1987

05/12/2020

Thanks to all our visitors today. Novelty Automation will be opening again on Thursday.

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce:
04/10/2020

Tim Hunkin wishes to announce:

03/10/2020
Novelty Automation
21/08/2020

Novelty Automation

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1A Princeton Street
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Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 11am - 6pm
Saturday 11am - 6pm

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Tim Hunkin at Novelty Automation repairing Cycle Pong! We are open this Thursday from from 12 to 8pm!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX4mx6W1MlU Roger Waters mentions with wonder the pyrotechnic tissue paper sheep early on in this film and laments he can't do it again.
Genuine bottle of Amazon employee urine and an employee product scanner at the Museum of Neoliberalism. I was promoted to post these after seeing Amazon claiming it was a myth via their relentlessly embarrassing AmazonNews twitter account.

As you can see in the last slide they're claiming this despite the fact there are leaked memos from Amazon managers complaining about bottles of urine and bags of s**t being found in warehouses.

I should point out, in case it's not obvious, that this isnt about workers being gross, its about workers having little choice but to do things like this due to the terrible working conditions and high pressure work targets that are enforced by Amazon.

I co-curated the museum with Gavin Grindon and this display has since been updated with a miniature working conveyor belt generously built for us by the brilliant Tim Hunkin at Novelty Automation. He's also built his own a satirical Amazon machine which is well worth checking out.

The museum is currently closed but will hopefully open later this year when we stop having to worry about this pandemic which you might have heard about

More photos and videos of the museum online at www.museumofneoliberalism.com


🎨: Using a face mask to ask Is It Art? Novelty Automation - Turns out it is! 😷

Every arcade's got Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, but if you've got a hankering for something a lil bit quirkier —say, a "Pet or Meat" or a "Crankenstein"—pop into Novelty Automation, London's wackiest arcade. https://greatbig.is/2Q2Vt05
Every arcade's got Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, but if you've got a hankering for something a lil bit quirkier —say, a "Pet or Meat" or a "Crankenstein"—pop into Novelty Automation, London's wackiest arcade. https://greatbig.is/2Q2Vt05
Si la risa es un bien preciado, entonces Tim Hunkin es el inventor más exitoso del mundo. En su refugio londinense Novelty Automation despliega un sinfín de máquinas recreativas destinadas solo a sacarte carcajadas.
Detail of the Amazon fulfilment centre diorama at the Museum of Neoliberalism which is open for the foreseeable future every Thursday through Sunday, book free tickets at museumofneoliberalism.com

Massive thanks to Tim Hunkin of Novelty Automation for generously building us this miniature conveyor belt, its the most reliable piece of technology in the museum.
Every arcade's got Pac-Man and Donkey Kong, but if you've got a hankering for something a lil bit quirkier —say, a "Pet or Meat" or a "Crankenstein"—pop into Novelty Automation, London's wackiest arcade. https://greatbig.is/374Sjjv
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Every arcade's got pinball, but if you've got a hankering for something quirkier, pop into Novelty Automation —Tim Hunkin's wild world of wacky.
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