Carl Helmers was designing spaceships in kindergarten. He “lucked out” by learning computers in high school in New Jersey, where he eventually got a summer job programming at Bell Labs. Then, as a NASA contractor in Houston, he installed compilers and even wrote a landing program for the Apollo Lunar Module. Computers were big, expensive […]
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Excerpt of the article: British artist Giles Walker has been making provocative art robots and kinetic sculptures for more than 20 years. His Peepshow installation features two metal and plastic life-sized pole dancers with CCTV heads who gyrate as the bullhorn-headed DJ drops beats between them.
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Excerpt from the article: Los Angeles-based artist Mike Ross is fascinated with power in all its forms, be it physical, political, economic, or the power of humanity to make its own world. In 2007, Ross’ vision manifested in the awe-inspiring form of a 50′-tall, 25-ton sculpture constructed from two discarded tanker trucks, one precariously perched […]
