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Chair 2 – Merging the mundane with the uncanny
Developed during a residency at New Lab (Detroit), Chair 2 explores the mundane with the uncanny, where an ordinary chair "comes alive" through motion.
Off Grid Assemblies – DIY kit for off-grid electricity
This project aims to create a low-cost DIY kit for off-grid electricity in collaboration with the local community, empowering them to construct and maintain the turbines independently for supplemental electricity generation.
Histolysis – Pulsing in peristaltic rhythms
Histolysis is a kinetic installation that engages nonhuman systems through attunement rather than control. Suspended above the floor, its root-like structure pulses with quiet, peristaltic motion.
Vague Boundaries – Particles, lines, and waves
Created by Jonghong Park, Vague Boundaries explores 'boundaries' between matter and phenomena. The custom made machine draws straight lines continuously on the paper by snapping the thread with the mechanism of the chalk line tool.
SFPC Spring 2019 Student Showcase
SFPC tutors Celine Wong Katzman and Taeyoon Choi reflect on yet another successful session at the artist run school in New York. SFPC Fall 2019 Open Call is live now!
Apparatum – Inspired by the Polish Radio Experimental Studio
Created by panGenerator, "Apparatum" is a custom made apparatus with digital interface that emits purely analogue sound. It is inspired by the heritage of the Polish Radio Experimental Studio – one of the first studios in the world producing elect...
CarbonScape – Pollution soundscape by h0nh1m
Created by h0nh1m (Chris Cheung) CarbonScape is a kinetic data soundscape installation consisting of 18 tracks of granular synthesized sound samples. They are collected from the sound sources where carbon footprints are left – sound from the jet e...
Poetry in Motion – St Marie φ Walker’s Reflective Sculptures
“Reflective Sculptures: A Critique of Binary Beliefs” is a pair of kinetic sculptures by the Ontario-based artists St Marie φ Walker. Produced as part of their MFA show, the motorized devices sit halfway between poems and machines.
Mojigen and Sujigen – Writing letters and numbers with servos using a time axis
Created by Yuichiro Katsumoto, Mojigen and Sujigen is a collection of servo motors, connected together to write a letter by the means of manipulating the axis of the motor.
Fari – Choreographed array of moving light heads
Created by Andreas Gysin in collaboration with Sidi Vanetti, Fari is a kinetic installation created with an array of moving light heads in a geometric configuration and programmed as a choreography.
Five Prototypes – New Context – Joachim Sauter and Ólafur Arnalds
Joachim Sauter of ART+COM collaborates with Icelandic musician Ólafur Arnalds to explore poetic synergy of music and mechanical motion in a space in the MADE gallery space in Berlin.
A levitating sound sculpture made of 300 wires – David Letellier’s Caten
Suspended from two ropes, each connected to slowly rotating arms at both ends, the ghostly structure comes alive, performing gentle, organic movements and a sacral real-time composition.
