Last Updated February 07, 2006

Living Sculpture Next exhibits

Octofuni is still going and going.... 10 year anniversary!

Next show will be in Tucson at the Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery directed by Albert Stewart.
Opening will be the 28 February 2006 until the 8 March 2006.

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The current show is At the 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.

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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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