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Living Sculpture goes to Tucson on November 14 2010 ...
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ART IS AND IDEA
The current show is At the SMoCA February 10, 2007 - May 27, 2007.
Octofungi is still going and going.... 10 years anniversary!
Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, Tucson Arizona.
Directed by Albert Stewart.
Opening will be the 28 February 2006 until the 8 March 2006.
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SMoCA Dec 17, 2005 - May 14, 2006.
Organized
by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Made possible in part by Karla and Walter Goldschmidt and the SMoCA Salon.
Publication desighned by Thinking Caps, Phoenix
Edited by t.a.neff associated, inc., Tucson
Text Cassandra Coblentz.
7380 E. 2nd Street
Scottsdale, AZ 85254
www.smoca.org
Flexicoatl, by Yves Amu Klein December 2005.
Flexicoatl, the latest piece in the living sculpture project is inspired by the Aztec mythology of the feathered serpent Queztalcoatl. The mythology talks about a feathered serpent that came from the heavens and brought knowledge to human kind which was a forbidden act and caused the Queztalcoatl to be exiled. This sculpture represents a contemporary expression of this sacrificial act to offer humanity a chance to reach enlightenment. Flexicoatl is an interactive sculpture that senses though its skin, ears, and eyes the presence of visitors and will express its emotional state by changing colors and moving its body, eyes and tongue as well as vocalizing an embracing song. Flexicoatl is a complex robotic sculpture that uses neural networks to generate its behaviors using Lorax Works technology like the micro-controller proSeed developed by Yves and his team. Flexicoatl hovers above a Periodic table of elements and fundamental particles that symbolizes the knowledge given to us sitting on the land of exile that the Quetzelcoatl was banished to until its expected return. Flexicoatl is made with aluminized nylon film commonly known as “mylar”. The balloons are filled with helium, the second lightest element on the periodic table. The tongue and its vertebrae are complex actuators made of carbon fiber, silicon tubing and high temperature plastics that hold memory shape alloys or SMA a kind of “artificial muscle”. The colors are produced by ultra bright color light emitting diodes or RGB LEDs. A complex network of micro-controllers is used to host Flexicoatl’s “brain”. Its eyes are made of plastic spheres that work like a “camera obscura” with a ccd array for retina. Its ears are a pair of ultrasound sensors that, like bats, can tell Flexicoatl where people and objects are.
SMoCA Dec 17, 2005 - May 14, 2006.
Organized
by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.
Made possible in part by Karla and Walter Goldschmidt and the SMoCA Salon.
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Ubicomp
The Fifth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Living Sculpture: Octofungi
Seattle,
Washington USA
October12-15, 2003
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2002
ABSOLUT
L.A. INTERNATIONAL
Sculpture To Wear
July 18 - August 18
Yves Amu Klein Octofungi and Interactive Jewelry
Robert Berman Galley
Bergamot Station Arts Center
2525 Michigan Avenue C2
Santa Monica, CA 90404
T. 310 828 9960 F. 310 829 9860
www.sculpturetowear.com
Ki'ZHO
international - Indigenous - native art
L'arbre de vie
November 27th - January 27th
Ki'ZHO international - Indigenous - native art
presents
L’Arbre de Vie (The Tree of Life) KI’ZHO is proud to present L’Arbre de Vie, an unprecedented event exhibiting the works of the Klein, Moquay, Raymond and Uecker family tree. For the first time in history, one of Europe’s most famous art families is united in showcasing close to a century of outstanding works in an intimate public arena. This remarkable lineage of talent and intellectual possibilities, spanning three generations, countless creative mediums and several international communities will come together in Scottsdale, Arizona for a private reception to mark the show’s opening on November 27th.
Artist
Rotraut, Gunther Uecker, Marcell, Marie Raymond, Fred Klein, Yves Klein, Yves
Amu Klein, David Moquay, Georges Moquay, Lorraine Moquay, Kathy P. Klein,
Seffa Klein.
In the essence of the family’s experimental output, Yves Amu has done extensive research towards the creation of an evolving autonomous art form. The results are Octofungi, an intelligent robotic sculpture which interacts with its environment, and the “pods”, a swarm of floating vessels that relate mutually with one another to genetically alter their behavior. Son of Yves and Rotraut, Yves Amu’s efforts are a result of a rich background in architecture, design, computer science, sculpture, neural networks and general artificial intelligence studies.
Hadrien Coumans
7101 Stetson Drive, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
KIZHO1@msn.com
T. 480 703 8431
www.kizho.com
FIG.U.RA.TION
October 7 tru November 18, 2000
GOCAIA
Gallery of contemporary and indigenous art
302 E. Congress Street Tucson, AZ 85701
(520)623-4588
www.gocaia.org
Machins/Machines
juin-octobre 2000
Donjon de Vez ,
currated by Jean-Michel Ribettes
LIVING SCULPTURE
by Yves Amu Klein
April 20th through May 12th, 2000
At Arizona State University in the Computing Commons Gallery
Lecture:
Thursday, April 20th, 3:00-4:00PM
in the Computing Commons Auditorium
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 20th, 4:00-5:30 PM
For More Info:
Call 480.965.3609 or visit http://www.asu.edu/it/spotlight
Sponsor:
Information Technology, Arizona State University
www.asu.edu/it/spotlight
2000
Octofungi & Living Sculpture at Festival Atlantico '99
October 21 - November 20
Festival Atlantico 99: Sensibilidade Apocaliptica
Lisboa, Portugal
Octofungi
& Living Sculpture at ICRA '99
May 10 through May 15
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
Detroit, MI
Yves presented Living Sculpture at a Plenary Session on "Robots and Art" along
with several other artists working with robotics. FUSE was conceived at
ICRA '99.
Octofungi
at Art Detour
March 1999
The Icehouse
429 W. Jackson Street
Phoenix, Arizona 85003
Telephone: 602-256-6333
Fax: 602-257-0656
1999
L'Art Pour La Vie (Second Exhibition)
l'Automobile Club de France
8, place de la Concorde
75008 Paris
May 25 through May 26
L'Art Pour La Vie (First Exhibition)
Drouot Montaigne
15, avenue Montaigne
75008 Paris
May 11 through May 16
L'Art Pour La Vie
oeuvres du XX siecle au profit de la Fondation Claude Pompidou Octofungi is currently being displayed at a non-profit auction in Paris, France.
