| December 26, 2006 | www.robodock.org the Robodock Festival merges technology and art
to an overwhelming experience www.alfredhoehn.ch The websites of Alfred Hoehn - have a look at the drafting machine Maios 1 www.kineticart.nl Kinetic objects and moving sculptures by Volkert van der Wijk www.nemomatic.com Mechanical sculptures by Gould Nemo most of them inspired by popular conceptions of robots Supposably the world oldest ball run exhibited in the Bode-Museum in Berlin |
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| December 17, 2006 | www.zufallsforschung.ch The website of Matthias
Schmid. Have
a look at The
10 Magic Boxes - kind of theater out of the box. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNIz1lg2_AQ&mode=related&search An amazing piece of kinetic art: The Robotic Chair von Raffaelo D’Andrea Pictures of the Rolling Ball Room by Hanns-Martin Wagner in the Museum Haus Löwenberg, Gengenbach (D) |
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| December 15, 2006 | www.pop-up.dk Movable paintings from Danmark by Kristine
Suhr. The
mechanical pictures are made of wood and then painted. www.knikkerbaan.nl Jelle Bakker's latest RBS called Christmas Tower / Winter Wonderland 2006 with a total lenght of 110 meters www.machines-animees.fr Automata, machines, mechanical sculptures and special effects by Dominique Corbin www.sculpture.org The International Sculpture Center (ISC) is a member-supported, nonprofit organization founded in 1960 to advance the creation and understanding of sculpture and its unique, vital contribution to society. Members include sculptors, collectors, patrons, architects, developers, journalists, curators, historians, critics, educators, foundries, galleries, and museums - anyone with an interest in and commitment to the field of sculpture. For kinetic section click http://sculptor.org/Sculptors/resource_mobiles.htm David M.MacMillan (Rolling Ball Web) is back with an impressive Constitutional Emergency Essay at www.lemur.com/index-constitution.html |
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| December 6, 2006 | Have a look at the Steam
Rolling Ball
on www.crabfu.com/steamtoys/steam_roller Rallina 1530 is a beautifully made Ball Run Toy of the Fa. Selecta Spielzeug (www.selecta-spielzeug.de) |
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| October 21, 2006 | The latest objects by Hanns-Martin Wagner: Rolling Ball Stele , Tabu Box and Rolling Ball Event | |
| October 20, 2006 | Tequila China is looking for an artist to develop a kinetic sculpture for use in events in China Kinetic Sculpture-Brief.ppt (2MB) | |
| October 18, 2006 | www.tupajumi.com/pingpongpixel For their graduation project at
the University of Leiden, these students developed a new
kind of output device for their computer, consisting out
of 8100 tabletennis balls in 6 greytones. www.design-produkte.de/abacus.htm The ultimate watch for RBS fans http://flickr.com/photos/frauenfelder/sets/72157594272587745/ Ernie Fosselius is an american filmmaker who makes cool little hand-cranked toys that he shows off in a home made pedal car. Click on www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/09/maker_ernie_fosselius.html for Video. www.pokeyplay.com/extras/kineticart Automata by Pablo Lavezzari from Cordoba (Spain) - a mixture of technic and classical handcraft http://automatescamus.monsite.wanadoo.fr The automata by the French artist Jean-Pierre Camus match the tradition of the 19th century. Also two mechanical shadow plays are shown at http://automatescamus.monsite.wanadoo.fr/page7.html www.automates-avenue.fr The museum in Falaise (F) exhibits mechanical display dummies and whole scenes for shop windows like they were made in the twenties in Paris. www.kinetica-museum.org Kinetica in London exhibits works of many artists. The work to be exhibited at Kinetica can be divided into the categories: KINETIC - the art of light and movement, ROBOTIC - the art of mechanised and interactive machines, VIDEO - screen-based art with works making use of projectors, SOUND - environments or machines which concentrate on sound. Kinetica is managed and developed by a strong core team, comprising of artists, educational and business associates who have had many years of expertise in their specific chosen fields. www.rollingball.co.kr The first (?) Rolling Museum of the world in Korea The Japanese Minoru Takahashi exhibits his wooden automata in Trois Rivieres (Kanada). Many informations, pictures and videos are posted on http://recit.csduroy.qc.ca/pc/karakuri |
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| October 16, 2006 | Michael Barbulescu's RBS on TV | |
| September 9, 2006 | A first video clip of the Rolling Ball Sculpture in Amman is online. The complete movie about the construction and testing of the giant RBS will be available by the end of this year. | |
| September 3, 2006 | Finally the giant RBS in Jordan's first interactive Children's Museum in Amman is completed. First pictures show the installation in its final colors. The whole construction was filmed by Michael Barbulescu. Scenes of the video will be available in a few weeks. | |
| August 15, 2006 | On 14th July we finally could load the container. On Monday, 21 August we - Stefan
Grünenfelder, Michael Barbulescu and Hanns-Martin Wagner - are the first time on the
construction site in the King Hussein Park in Amman. We
will report about it... And then there is this nice postcard from Lucia (7), showing the design for a rolling ball sculpture :-) |
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| August 1, 2006 | www.stuerzbecher.de Automorphic Art by Volkhard
Stürzbecher
- an artist of nonlinear dynamic systems. www.virginiomoutinho.com Besides his professional activity as an architect Virginio Moutinho is a passionate collector and designer of mechanical toys and animated art objects, full of humour and surprise. Straight link: www.virginiomoutinho.com/escultura.html |
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| July 19, 2006 | www.galleri-finsrud.no/sider/mobile/foto.html The Norwegian artist and inventor Reidar Finsrud made this perpetual motion machine. It's exhibited and got started near Drøbak (Norway) in 1996. After its cleaning in 2006 it's supposed to work for another 10 years. | |
| July 10, 2006 | www.johnclairwatts.com John Clair Watts is a Canadian sculptor whose website showcases an assemblage gallery, sculpture exhibitions and more. | |
| July 8, 2006 | Close-ups of the latest Giant Rolling Ball Sculptures No. 13 and 14 by Stefan Grünenfelder with many lift systems | |
| July 6, 2006 | www.danieldepoutot.com Amazing objects, sculptures,
drawings, machines and installations by the sculptor Daniel
Depoutot
(Reference: Daniel Depoutot: come back -
Installationen und Zeichnungen. 63 pages, edited by Erik
Stephan, Städtische Museen Jena, 2006) www.benhopson.com Designing Movement: An Aesthetic Investigation of Motion in Product Design by Ben Hopson. Don't miss this! www.grand-illusions.com Lots of toys and all about illusions and physical tricks. For the ball run click on www.grand-illusions.com/toycollection/via |
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| June 18, 2006 | www.cupillard.com The website of the clock maker Yves Cupillard including a museum with automata all made in his studio. | |
| June 1, 2006 | A tribute to the RBS community made by an
unknown artist. The picture was taken by Falk Keuten in Bonn (Germany). A few of the latest Rolling Ball Sculptures by Matthew Gaulden |
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| May 30, 2006 | www.crabfu.com Crabfu SteamWorks - steam powered machines and
centipedes of the American I-Wei Huang. Klann Research and Development, LLC is the patent holder on the leg mechanics of the mechanical spider. The Swiss clockmaker Emmanuel Cottier is the creator of wonderful mechanical shadow plays. At the bottom of the website www.1227.ch/Pervenches/Dossiers/Cottier/Cottier_00.htm you can click through the different pictures and steering mechanisms. |
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| May 02, 2006 | www.artomic.com Haxanthrobotic art, androids, automata & optical wonders by the sculptor Thomas Kuntz | |
| April 17, 2006 | www.maschinenkunst.com Applause at the push of a button?
You may get that visiting Martin Müller and his kinetic-acoustic machines
and objects! www.crossbarr.co.uk/rbs.htm The company by Mike Barnett produces wooden models including Rolling Ball Sculptures called Educational Marble Machines |
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| April 11, 2006 | Inspirations à la Rube Goldberg or Fischli & Weiss or just some comercial competition? Amazing chainreactions with tons of astonishing mechanical devices: Rubegoldberg1.wmv (6,5 MB) and Rubegoldberg2.wmv (6,3 MB) | |
| April 9, 2006 | www.etiketoc.com/pit.html Kinetic Totem by the sculptor Patrice
Hubert www.foreststreetdesigns.com Click on "Products" and "Marble Towers" for amazing woodworking plans! http://home.kendra.com/mauser/MarblePump.mov A nice conveyor technique by Rich Chandler www.yatego.com/tomwet-trend-geschenke/p,43395fdcd613d,4225d9b6d674a9_9,don-t-break-the-bottle-puzzle This present might cause headache ;-) Automaten und Roboter vom 5.-7. Mai 2006 mehr & wert shows automata and robots by 9 artists |
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| March 31, 2006 | Just to let you know: 3 competitions and
projects Tsunami Memoria Norway Sammlung Essl Electro Trash |
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| March 23, 2006 | www.scharstein.de The new website by Felix
Scharstein.
Lots of new exponats, f.e. coin machines for donations
and a RBS. www.traberart.ch/Objekte.htm Two Rolling Ball Sculptures by Urs Martin Traber are situated in Au (Lake Zurich) and in Lihn. www.paperanimations.com a new website selling paper automata by Rob Ives, Walter Ruffler and Keisuke Saka |
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| March 16, 2006 | Several videos show the different features of the RBS for Amman. | |
| March 15, 2006 | The Museum of Ideas in Lviv, Ukraine, is
proud to establish the long-term Bernardengarden plastic project - the Territory
for Free Plastic Ideas. For information about the project please see the Word-Doc (196 Kb, German) |
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| March 13, 2006 | 12
Projektionsmaschinen is the latest DVD by Peter
Fischer Release Point: Friday 17, 2006, 5:30 pm at mehr&wert, Ziegelrain 11, 5000 Aarau Also have a look at the new designed website www.projektionsmaschine.ch |
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| March 5, 2006 | The day after: Pictures after the heavy snowfalls in Switzerland and Germany | |
| February 26, 2006 | High noon on Saturday First big test of the RBS for Jordan | |
| February 23, 2006 | http://people.timezone.com/mdisher/decorte/junod/junodpart1.htm Finest automata by Francois
Junod www.swirlingbrain.com/rbs.html Jim Brown's Rolling Ball Sculptures including Paper Ball Trails! |
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| February 19, 2006 | RBS for Amman First pictures of the lift mechanism | |
| January 22, 2006 | www.telesymbiosis.com UNCAGED by Ralf Nuhn is a series of six installations
exploring interrelationships and transitions between
screen-based digital environments and their physical
surroundings. UNCAGED incorporates different electromechanical devices and automated sculptures which interact, visually and acoustically, with computer generated animations and video images. Most of the exhibits are reminiscent of familiar games or feature modified toys, and participants can playfully engage with the installations via touch screens and tangible custom-made interfaces. RBS for Amman Winter ambience for Jordan - snow on the tracks ! |
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| January 14, 2006 | RBS for Amman The latest and the last missing link in the RBS got mounted. | |
| January 7, 2006 | www.sommercube.com Symmetry under transformation - a
device by Michael Sommer Cycle, 2005 by Hanns-Martin Wagner The performance of the Amsterdam Connection: Latest pictures of the RBS construction site The Bingo Ball Run by Hanns-Martin Wagner for MDR Television (2004): Video (2,2 MB) smaller version ; Video (6,9 MB) highstream |
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