»Tempest 1« and »Quantum 1«. These photographs are long exposures taken while playing video war games of the 80’s created by Atari, Centuri and Taito. By Rosemarie Fiore.
»Good-Time Mix Machine: Scrambler Drawings« also by Rosemarie Fiore. A connected gas generator and air compressor to buckets of paint and secured into the seats of a Scrambler amusement park ride. Once the ride is in motion, paint is sprayed out of the benches onto vinyl tarps placed underneath. The result is a series of enormous hypocycloid designs which recorded the hidden patterns created by the ride as it turned. Video.
“Untitled (Masking tape)”, “Pencils”, “Chair”,
“Bubble machine” and “Graffiti printer” by Ariel Schlesinger.
“ElectroViaGram” by Nonconform, is an invitation to visitors to participate in the exhibition, in fact, to create it. “ElectroViaGram” is a machine for the production of exhibits which depends on visitors as a driving force. By passing light barriers the visitors activate loudspeakers which set the drawing area in vibrations.
A fast rotatign LCD-monitor generates three dimensional phantom images which can be observed from all sides, without the aid of special glasses or the like. The image shown is a simple vector movie based on the novel »Flatlands« by E. A. Abbot, in which a square living in a two dimensional world receives a visit from a ball. This Spatial Vision Device is called »Hanoscop« in tribute to an inventor, Mr. Hanisch, who patented a machine based on similar principles in 1966
»The Flying Carpet« is a hovercraft powered by a leafblower.
The propeller of a marine outboard engine has been replaced by wheels, which make the »Independent Trailer« an autonomous vehicle.
»Spleen« is a freeze-frame explosion, an autopsy on motor and chassis that encapsulates the utopian fantasy of the overhauled scooter, driving off into the sunset.
»Das Schaukelhaus«.
A »Bonanzarad« has this name only in German speaking Europe. Teenagers, who invented it in the 60s in Long Beach and built it out of junk, never had the intention of constructing something faster or better than existing bikes, rather it was a pre-teen, Pop era status symbol. The many details and saddle seat evoked the feeling of riding a horse or an Easy Rider motorcycle. A playing card mounted in the wheel spokes created a motor-like noise, just as here, the chainsaw is used constructively. Through an alteration to the chain on the rear wheel, the vision is obtained, and the Wannabe‘s dream is realized…
By pedaling, electricity is generated that powers the motor for an electric wheelchair, that makes the »Healed Home Exercise Bike« move. The tachometer indicates the phantom-speed.
By controlling the suction of 35 burning cigarettes the »Cigarette Display« device can display simple graphics, letters and symbols. All projects by David Moises.
»Ball Machine.« Tennis balls bounce of the walls and make a trajectory that leads back into the ball machine. By Patrick Martinez.
Sportscar motor rotating at around 800 revolutions, reduced to 33 revolutions by a gearbox, playing records on a turntable mounted to the engine block.
Bicycle playing a 7 inch record mounted to the back wheel. Both projects by Alexander Laner. Further vinyl based projects: Helmut Smits and Jeroen Diepenmaat.
Self firing arrow machine by Olav Westphalen at Milliken Gallery.
Painting Manufacture Unit by Roxy Paine. A spray nozzle mounted on a large moving arm travels in front of a canvas, spraying acrylic paint as it makes its pass. After a programmed amount of inactivity, which allows the paint to dry, the arm gets to work again and makes another pass.
Auto Sculpture Maker creates an endless series of amorphous sculptural blobs.
Drawing Machine floods paint into a mixing chamber and dispenses it via a spray nozzle that travels a pre-programmed course over the paper. After making its pass and releasing its paint load, the machine rests, allowing the paint to dry-before another pass is made. All three machines by Roxy Paine.
“One Minute” by Meridith Pingree. Participants generate portraits of their physical personality when they wear a strap-on video pinhole camera headband for one minute. The movement of the camera is translated into a three-dimensional line drawing and output as an object by a 3-D printer.
Sculpture made of glue by Henrik Menné.
»The Real Thing« is an installation to filter Coca-Cola into clean drinking water. By Helmut Smits from 2006.
»Quarter Pipe« from 2005. Materials: wood, mirror, vinyl. Also by Helmut Smits.
»LP Bike« from 1999 plays a record attached to the front wheel. The cycling speed influences the sound. Another project by Helmut Smits.
