Touch-tone dialing. Click image to enlarge.
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Sketchbook Moment No.6
I feel so grateful for this free beer that I’ve bought one of these lovely souvenir craft objects. Click image to enlarge.
Nude with Concertina
We have a couple of new works from Paul Spooner as he warms up for his Virtual Exhibiton later this year. The first is ‘Nude with Concertina’ (pictured), an ingenious mechanism moves the skeleton’s arms, and a delicate origami-paper concertina is played. There are two of these. To buy or for more information click here. […]
Sketchbook Moment No. 5
The Veil of Order. Click image to enlarge.
Sketchbook Moment No.4
A convenient folding dog. Click image to enlarge.
New Kinetica Exhibition – London
Kinetica have a new exhibition featuring 10 UK and International artists who are experimenting with evolution, hybridisation and the infiltration of technology. The artworks vivify inanimate materials with energatic vitality and are a comment on the relationship between our technologically enhanced society and the natural world. UK artists include Tim Lewis, Tom Wilkinson and Jim […]
Sketchbook Moment No.3
A robot creating his own pizza. Click image to enlarge.
Sketchbook Moment No.2
Les Voyeurs – a typical European art installation of the 1960’s. Click image to enlarge.
Sketchbook Moment No.1
“Isn’t it time you put a bit more seriousness into your work?” “We’re all going to die. Isn’t that serious enough for you?” Click image to enlarge.
Tinkering with PIE
Over the past 10 years we have worked regularly with Mike Petrich and Karen Wilkinson from the Exploratorium, in San Francisco. Mike and Karen have enormous energy, and a unique capability for making things happen in their tinkering workshops. Some of our favourites have been the ‘Sound Automata’ workshops where participants build sound automata and […]