Art Links 2012¶
Final update October 31, 2012 (although many links are already dead).
Sites to Explore¶
Rebecca Horn, E.A.T.
Gabriel Orozco. A Mexico City artist who has shown in Documenta 2002. Mentioned by Tak for the toilet paper on the ceiling fan.
San Francisco International Mechanical, Kinetic, and Electronic Arts Festival.
Robotic/Kinetic Art¶
Robo-DJ.Automatic turntablist. Ok in concept, not very well done implementation; doesn’t take good advantage of automation possibilities.
Protrude, Flow. Ferrofluid sculpture shown at SIGGRAPH.
Guillermo Gomez-Pena. bio, show, image, Temple of Confessions.
Bruce Cannon.Seems oriented toward sculpture for sale, with a few themes of time and death, electronics, in aesthetic forms.
TreeTime. Addresses the theme of slow action.
Explorers. I just like the simplicity of the mechanism.
Cask. Addresses the theme of long-term (years) development of action.
Jim Pallas. Animated sculptures with a playful bent.
Wormdans. Inflatable tubes. I like the large scale of these, although the binary counter concept isn’t very interesting.
CNC milled wood reliefs, Sheldon Brown. Pure sculpture, but the concept was used well.
Amy Youngs (older links: Amy Youngs
Rearming the Spineless Opuntia. Nice blend of natural and mechanical.
Cricket Call. Audible telepresence with crickets.
Alchemical Bloom - 2000. Interesting chemistry tech art.
Fluid Desires. A mild commentary on consumerism.
Jason Ditmars
Jim Campbell. He had a Wood Street show in 2001. Some articles:
Urge is a permanent interactive sculpture installed at the Yerba Buena Gardens in front of Zeum, in San Francisco. When a person or people of at least 100 lbs sits on a bench in front of the globe, the kinetic element of the sculpture is activated. As the bench slowly lowers, it engages a large underground lever which activates a series of link rods driving the counterweighted figure’s movement. When the observer on the bench sits, the figure on the globe also sits. When the observer stands, the figure slowly rises.
Billy Kluver, E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology)
“Four Difficult Pieces,” by Billy Kluver, Art in America, July 1991, Vol. 79, No.7, pp. 81-138.
His most recent book, A Day with Picasso, is based on 18 photographs of Picasso, Modigliani, and their friends taken by Jean Cocteau in 1916. As a qualified scientist, Kluver analyzed the photographs to determine exactly where and at what time they were taken.
Andrew Dahley, ambient fixtures, MIT Media lab, robotic sculptures/information displays.
Ken Rinaldo, at OSU.
Theo Jansen. Walking sculptures on the beach made from yellow plastic tubes. First saw video of them in a talk by Norm White.
Diller and Scofidio: the blur building. Designed a pavilion perpetually in an artificial cloud.
Carl Pisaturo Various articulated robot sculptures.
Timothy Hunkin. Fantasy machines. Referenced in Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice
Charles Mattox. A variety of kinetic work. Referenced in Kinetic Art: Theory and Practice
George Rhoads. Painter, sculpture. Makes a variety of ball machines, clocks, windpieces, etc.
William Lamson. Animator, performer, sculptor. Falling video, interested in ball bouncing machine.
senster. The art of Edward Ihnatowicz, a Cybernetic Sculptor active in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Bill Vorn. I saw two of his installations at Wood Street in 2011, ‘hysterical machines’ and ‘Red Light’.
Brad LitwinHas worked with Squonk Opera.
Resources¶
Grant Smart, funding information
Art and Robotics Group: Art & Artists using Robotics Technology
Kugelbahnen, rolling ball sculpture and kinetic art links
Fabric-Air Sculpture¶
Tim Hawkinson
Beverly Semmes
Nancy Davidson
Evelyn Roth
Max Streicher.Balancing act; inflatable Tyvek suits.
Alexandre Magno
Ernesto Neto
Carnegie International. Large stretchy fabric space that visitors could walk through.
Inflate. From xray lab; Leslie Clague had a hand in this.
TechnoFrolics Animate fabric banners, animated iron filings, etc.
newsknitter. Sweaters with news-headline text in the weave. Combination of tactical media and fabric art.
John Toth. Installations, some costuming, banners
Jannick Deslauriers. Sewn fabric sculptures of tanks, flowers, sewing machines, etc.
Tactical Media¶
Jonah Brucker-Cohen Various tactical media and interactive media projects. He is a research fellow at Media Lab Europe, etc.
Costume¶
Hussein Chalayan, Fashion designer.
People I’ve Met¶
LiveArt, link from Amanda Steggell, whom I met in Amsterdam.
William Lamson. Animator, performer, sculptor. Falling video, interested in ball bouncing machine.
Ken Rinaldo. Faculty at OSU
Gavin Jantjes [] []. Met in Oslo in 2011 during New Artist show.
Louis-Phillipe Demers. Met at ICRA 2011, kinetic artist based in Singapore. A lot of work, including Tiller Girls.
Mari Velonaki. Met at ICRA 2011, kinetic artist based in Australia, Co-Director, Centre for Social Robotics, Australian Centre for Field Robotics, The University of Sydney.
Jane Goodall. Met at ICRA 2011, writer on art and technology from Australia.
Mey Lean Kronemann. Met at ICRA 2011, artist and designer from Berlin, Lumibots.
Space¶
Academic Programs¶
Opportunities¶
Venues¶
Photography¶
Jan Baracz. Sonya knows him.
Pneumatic Percussion and other Musical Machines¶
Cell. Pneumatic percussion in a shipping container.
P.E.A.R.T.. Plays kit using standard actuators.
Pierre Bastien. Variety of electromechanical instruments.
Suspended Art Robots¶
Hektor. suspended graffiti robot
Visual Music¶
Phillip SchreibmanPainter of synesthetic images visualizing music.
Notations 21an anthology of innovative musical notation (not much there)
Ritual Robots¶
robot monk residing at Hotoku-ji, a temple in Kakogawa City. Created by Yoshihiro Motooka.
Other¶
Interspecies Musical communication with animals.
Jeff Talman. Sound field installations which reprocess the ambient sound.
Larry Kirkland. Sculptor of large scale public installations.
Falling¶
Kerry Skarbakka Photographs of him falling, tripping, stumbling in dangerous places.