This project is being developed in collaboration with artists Ashley Pigford and Troy Richards. Inspired by a statement written on Woody Guthrie’s guitar, This Machine Kills Fascists (TMKF) is a guitar-playing robot that performs traditional American folk music on a
Continue readingIOLS was a project initiated by Robot Clothes, a partnership between James Powderly and Michelle Kempner, and completed during their 2005 artist in residency at Eyebeam in Manhattan. I was brought on as their biomechanics consultant. We wanted to make
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While with Honeybee Robotics, I acted as the lead technical consultant to evaluate the malfunction of the large projection screen mounted on a track on the outside of the Moscone Center in San Francisco. The screen was designed to follow
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In May of 2006 I got to travel to Namibia, Africa, to film a pilot for the show Battle of the Geeks – a BBC/Open University co-production. We had 48 hours to figure out a way to get an egg
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My good friend and industrial designer extraordinaire, Elliott Montgomery, came up with a design for a mobile solar charging unit for Solar One in the summer of 2009. He asked me to help turn the concept into a reality, and
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Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty was on exhibit at the New Museum from 10/21/09 – 2/7/10. Among many works of art was a tongue that stuck out of a hole in the wall when a visitor walked past. I worked
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While working with Kammetal I modeled designs for another iteration of their furniture for the Chipotle chain of restaurants. I translated the architect’s hand sketches and AutoCAD drawings into 3D models of tables, stools, and light fixtures. The raw materials
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Aki Sasamoto, a Whitney Biennial artist and co-director of Culture Push, ran two events at which I got to show people how to make and race mousetrap powered cars. The first was a DOING workshop where I taught a small
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SADbot was created for and installed in the window gallery at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center (when it was in the Chelsea neighborhood in NYC), in partnership with Ben Leduc-Mills (with funding through Kickstarter). It used two 18.5” x 13”
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