David Bowen makes kinetic, robotic, interactive and sculptural works. You could say he is particularly interested in the relation between nature and machine. Most of his kinetic work uses an organic input source resulting in an artificial interpretation of the robot.
fly drawing device
There is the
fly drawing device for example. A few flies are locked in a small chamber with sensors. As the flies move, the robot is translating the their input into drawings.
growth modeling device
In
this installation the state of an onion plant is captured with a 3D scanner. The robot is drawing the state of the plant in real-time. When it is finished building the process is started all over again.
growth rendering device
Not unlike the growth modeling device
this installation is drawing the growth of a plant.
Check out the rest of his work
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