Birds, MuAC, Mexico City, June 2009
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Chico MacMurtrie, Birds, June 2009, MuAC, Mexico City.
Photo credit: Luise Kaunert, Paris
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Chico MacMurtrie, Birds, June 2009, MuAC, Mexico City.
Photo credit: Luise Kaunert, Paris
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Tags: amorphic, arw, birds, chico macmurtrie, interactive, sculpture

Special thanks to Chico MacMurtrie, Sven Travis of Parsons The New School of Design, the National Art Museum of China and the organizers of the Synthetic Times exhibition.
I was honored to participate in the exhibition, and delighted to meet so many incredible artists, including Verdensteatret, Kurt Hentschläger, f18 institute, Edwin van der Heide, Blendid, Herwig Weiser, and David Rokeby.
For more information on 16 Birds, see this page on the Amorphic website and this page from an earlier exhibition in New York City.






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Two photos of Chico MacMurtrie’s inflatable Birds sculpture at the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York City. This is a beautiful piece, which consists of 16 inflatable robotic devices. I spent a few days programming this piece for Chico in the gallery, and we snapped these images on Chico’s iPhone.
I’m very impressed with the direction of Chico’s new work, which has been getting a good deal of press attention lately, too. It’s nice to see Chico’s work getting the attention I think it deserves.
If you are in the city, I recommend a trip to one of the pieces he has up now.
New York Times
New York Post
Wired
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Speaking of robots, here’s a fun picture of Chico Maurtrie and I from 2002. We were programming the sculpture in the picture, named Skelli, for a video shoot at Chico’s studio in Brooklyn.
Chico’s latest work, the Totemobile, was recently featured in Wired Magazine. Video below. Pretty darned cool.
There are more Amorphic Robot Works images here.
The Amorphic Robot Works Website is here.
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Found a directory full of nice pictures from the 2000 Amorphic Robot Works shows at Muffattehalle in Munich.
http://www.briankane.net/muffatte2000
The image above is Mark 9 and myself setting up show controls.
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Installation shot of Amorphic Robot Works at Muffattehalle, Munich, Germany, 2000
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From an Amorphic Robot Works show at Tacheles, in Berlin. 1996
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And may you never go there
This is a picture from 1996, while programming the SDM (Super Dog Monkey) to walk for the Amorphic Robot Works show at The Lab in San Francisco. Plenty of cables for sure.
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From the 1996 Amoprhic Robot Works shows at the Circulo de las Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain.
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