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machine · electronic · robotic art
project archive
This section contains documentation of miscellaneous projects, experiments, unfinished work, bad ideas etc.
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2007
A levitating machine. Via a block and tackle system, it slowly lifts a cinder block about 1 foot. A prototype for Leak To Lower Lazy Levitating Load.
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2004
From a residency in Dawson, yukon during 24 hours of sunlight. Very simple experimental devices produce interesting patterns of collective behaviour.
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2003
3 axis stepper motor "fishing rod" investigates EMF of common household objects. Shadowshow. Audience does not see the device.
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2003 and 2001
Documentation of empircal motor torque tests. Shot during a residency at Struts Artist Run Centre in Sackville, New Brunswick 2001. Edited in 2003.
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2001
Variation of Fishing. Precursor to levitation machines.
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2001
Variation of Switch.
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2001
A water teeter totter. Precursor to levitation machines.
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2000
A novel means of robot locomotion. This version designed for arms. Proposed version consists of multiple solar-powered units crawling along fluorescent tubes.
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1999
Mechanical-digital video surveillance. Installed in a closet. It makes a recording of everyone who comes to see it, and plays it back to them later (apologies to Don Ihde).
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1999
Precursor to Why Do Machines Think They Are Human? Defective Video Cassette Recorder.
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1999
Prototype for Incidental Energy Reclamation through standard door closer mechanism |
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1999
The goal is to eventually poke through the floor.
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1998
Performance in which live CCTV images of a face and ass taunt a kicking machine, and get kicked.
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1997
A modified motion detector is used to make a video guard dog.
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1996
A pre recorded videotape controls an electric motor, synchronizing the real time motion of video monitors with the motion of their images.
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