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1820 – Prosopographus, the Automaton Artist – Charles Hervé

cyberne1 — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 07:49:22 +0000

Prosopographus Selected extract from the full post by Patrick Feaster here. Between 1820 and 1835, a machine was exhibited around Great Britain that was advertised as taking people’s portraits by strictly automatic means. Someone had only to pay a shilling and sit perfectly still next to it for the space of a minute to obtain […]

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1964-5 – Robot Art – Enrique Castro-Cid (Chilean)

cyberne1 — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:24:48 +0000

Anthropomorphicals I and II. 1964. Plexiglass and Aluminum. 65in. x 20in. x 24in. Richard Feigen Gallery, New York. 1965. Source: Beyond Modern Sculpture – Jack Burnham 1968 It would be misleading to classify [Hans] Haacke as an artist primarily devoted to applying cybernetic principles to mechanical artifacts; rather his interests are in those cyclical processes […]

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1957 – Remote-Controlled Painting Machine – Akira Kanayama (Japanese)

cyberne1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:22:30 +0000

Akira Kanayama’s painting machine from 1957 was a four-wheeled device that Kanayama could remote-control to create paintings approximately 180 by 280 cm. The canvas lay on the floor and the machine dripped and poured paint on the picture pane. The painting machine is an early example of the machine/robot in the role of artist. Kanayama’s […]

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1971 – “COSME” – Le Chevalier de L’Espace – Jeanne Renucci-Convers (French)

cyberne1 — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 03:21:13 +0000

Cosme, le chevalier de lumière… est le dernier né et le géant des automates. Nous voilà bien loin des premières poupées articulées. Cosme n'est pas seulement colossal (5 m. de haut, 1.350 kg), il a de l'ambition et veut synthétiser en lui l'humanité présente et future dans le contexte technique qui est le nôtre. Animé […]

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1978 – “Mechanimals” Illustrations – Murray Tinkelmann (American)

cyberne1 — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 14:19:02 +0000

U&lc. Illustrated by Murray Tinkelman, December 1979 I love machinery. I love drawings, photographs and diagrams of machinery, particularly diagrams. They look important, they demand respect, and they inspire confidence. How dare anyone doubt that those dotted lines, those beautiful arrows, and the mystically placed little uppercase letters indicate something of great but obscure significance? […]

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1968-9 – “Homo Cyberneticum” (“Cybernetic Man”) series – Paul Van Hoeydonck (Belgian)

cyberne1 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:08:14 +0000

CYB Head and Arm – 1969 Plexiglass, aluminium, and wires. cybernetic man — birth of a new type of man, adapted to new duties and interplanetary missions. we known already at this moment that it will be soon possible to adapt man to new environments by adding or replacing parts of his body with cybernetic […]

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1967 – “Kaliedophonic Dog”, “Rosebud Annunciator” (1969) – Stephan von Huene (American)

cyberne1 — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 07:07:09 +0000

Interview with John Gaughan who restored "Tap Dancer". AN INTERVIEW WITH STEPHAN VON HUENE ON HIS AUDIO-KINETIC SCULPTURES Dorothy Newmark* * Computer artist living at 820 Hermosa Drive, N.E., Albuquerque, N.M. 87110, U.S.A. (Received 22 November 1969.) Interviewer's note—Stephan Von Huene was born in Los Angeles, California in September 1932 and is currently residing […]

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1970 – Pneumatic Drawing and Painting Machines – David Jacobs (American)

cyberne1 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:25:27 +0000

Pages 51 – 52 [images above] February 1970. A "drawing" and later "painting" machine which made the graph-like drawings in which we see both the simple program and the simple resultant "drawing." Later developments added variable voltage and therewith a "how much" on or off possibility. These and other developments made a greater apparent distance […]

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1967 – Pneumatic Rubber Tube Sound Sculpture – David Jacobs (American)

cyberne1 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:19:35 +0000

DAVID JACOBS Born 1932 in Niagara Falls, New York. Studied in California, obtaining his M.A. at Los Angeles State College. Presently Acting Chairman, Fine Arts Department, Hofstra University, New York. Notebook These photographs [in attached pdf] and pages from my sketchbooks arc presented more or less in chronological order and deal with inflating sound sculptures and […]

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1992 – “Soul of Bubble King” – Kenji Yanobe (Japanese)

cyberne1 — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 13:16:37 +0000

From Kenji Yanobe, one of Japan’s most creative contemporary artists, comes the whimsical sculptural work "Soul of Bubble King" . Inspired by the Japanese subculture of Anime and Manga, Yanobe’s works are intellectually inquisitive and convey a stoic persistence in facing adversity in everyday life. Created in 1992, "Soul of Bubble King" is a monumental sculpture […]

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