ChristopherRobbins PhpWiki - Dm Planked Mechanical

With Michael Beresford

DmPatheticCreature

a life-support for a dying animal built with wood rescued from the rubbish-bin. Also uses skills learned in DmBodyElectric and DmOptics

Circular motion to jitter

turning a crank produces a jittery up and down motion. Like this

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Related Work

Arthur Ganson's Kinetic Machines

Heri Dono, Indonesia

"Dono's interest in recent years has been focused on installing low-tech devices on traditional images. He makes what, on its own, is no more than a cinematic sculpture, but by multiplying the number of figures to repeat the same image, it becomes an installation-like work that takes up a considerable amount of space.

It could also be said that Heri Dono is in pursuit of divine laughter rather than the humor of the modern man. As long as the artist wants to criticize modern society, he has to enter it for himself once.

It is because Dono relies on this imagination that although his installations incorporate severe criticism of modernity, they do not end in straightforward grief and despair but adorn an almost impudent optimism." - 23rd sao paulo bienniale

Animal Journey,2000 Installation: Bicycles, dynamos, tape player, bamboo fans, shadow puppets.

Bernie Lubel

Interactive wood machines

"Pumping the bellows in one room briefly animates latex bags & sticks in another. Names of parts, commentary and instructions are stamped into the wood.

This installation was an effort to resolve questions concerning the origins of life. How, if everything has a cause, can there ever be a beginning?"

Tinguely

Tinguely creates mechanical works in which the mechanism is not the actuater for a piece, but the piece itself. One work is a machine that destroys itself.

Pat Keck

Pat Keck creates automated large humans.

Sam Gibbons' work is not animated, but involves brightly colored layers of perverted disney characters imposed over rorscharch blots made of wood. I link him here for his scale and deft use of layers of flat planes in a 3D space.

Marcel Duchamp BrideStrippedBare

The Bride Stripped Bare... is a plan of sorts for an allegorical machine etched in glass.

Dearraindrop

Matthew Ronay

With paint, glue, a band saw, and a high-powered sander, Matthew Ronay transforms medium density fiberboard (MDF) into colorful sculptural tableau...Increasingly, Ronay's Tinker Toys brim with blood, guts, and bodily fluids. For instance, earlier installations that included buttered pancakes and a detached leg with sheet music spinning from its toe (70's Funk Concert Model), argyle socks caught between a hot dog and a gasoline can (Five-Headed Cock In Drag)...

"The work definitely does not illustrate ideas. At least not explicitly concrete ones. It elicits a response. If someone is lazy they would misunderstand the setup as nonsensical or a non sequitur. Instead, what is offered is a chance to create something revealing out of something that is trying to lose its self-consciousness."

Matthew Ronay is a good sculptor. He's not just making iconography in 3-D. He consistently tells a story about something larger than himself using our ideas about space and arranging objects to create interesting visual fields . I use Matthew Ronay's work when I am trying to explain the difference between a sculpture and an object to my students. He's definitely doing it right.

And when I teach really good students, I use Matthew Ronay's work to explain what happens when you do it a little too right, and do too little beyond that. His work tends to be very much of its sources. It's a little too Jessica Stockholder, and way too Paul ?McCarthy. -Deborah Fisher

see AssembledSpaces

Chris Dobrowolski

"In a great deal of his previous work, Chris Dobrowolski has been dealing with history. Household appliances, often themselves junk-shop antiques, have been side-tracked, perverted into memory-machines. A fridge stands with a gutted tv on top of it, connected by extractor-fan tubing. Open the fridge door (of course it?s empty) and the tv spurts into life. Literally. Inside the screen a snowstorm envelops the toytown figures, while, dimly heard on the lowest-fi vinyl, military music plays Soviet marching songs. Through a sleight of hand, familiar objects are lightly, playfully transformed, and the mini-drama that results is one that keeps its charm despite the looming presence of its connotations: a melancholy deeply undercut by menace." -studio 1.1

"He told me he'd made an old car you could pedal and had some funny adventures with the police, and I imagined a hodgepodge. Nothing could be farther from the truth. The car is many things'an evocation of a particular landscape, a portion of a master raconteur?s tale, a museum piece, an ongoing vehicle for transcendence- but let's be sure to bring the literalists on board here: those bits of pipe and rubber are pretty.-Tangents"