Cool student project from our own Matt Richardson, who built this single-character “combination lock” text display for Daniel Rozin’s Designing for Digital Fabrication class in the ITP program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
I absolutely love Ben Cowell-Tomas’s Lightplot, a 3D light painting system. An animation is imported into his custom software which, in turn, drives a robotic arm to draw each frame with an LED in a 3D space.
The Immortal is a work of art by Revital Cohen. A number of life-support machines are connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in attempt to mimic a biological structure. The Immortal investigates human dependence on electronics, the desire to make machines replicate organisms and our perception of anatomy as reflected by biomedical engineering. […]
Chris first appeared on our radar last year. I like Rob Beschizza’s description of his works as “randomly-generated parts for high-performance machines that don’t work in our universe.” He has just released a self-published art book with photos of his catalog and beautiful plan drawings that are just as eye-catching.
Two of my classmates at ITP made this incredibly fun sendup of the game Plinko from The Price Is Right. It’s called Plinko Poetry and I’ve been having a lot of fun playing with it over the past few days.
Emerson Bianchin uses scrap pieces such as keys, bearings, and plumbing fixtures to create his miniature motorcycles. In describing his work, Emerson notes that a piece often begins with a single component, upon which he builds a matrix, eventually bringing the motorcycle to completion.
Arthur Gansen’s kinetic sculpture includes a gear train that will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes one turn.
