[spectre] ROBOTIC ARTS WORKSHOP in Adelaide (led by Chico MacMurtrie)

[EAF Director]

Robotic Arts, Inflatable Aestheticism is a project comprising 
exhibition, workshop, and presentations by Chico MaMurtrie, one of 
the world's leading artists using robotic technologies.
Robotic Arts, Inflatable Aestheticism is an innovative development 
project which implements evolving technologies for the new generation 
of robotic sculpture.
Chico MacMurtrie - born in New Mexico and now residing in New York - 
is the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works. Formed in 1992, 
Amorphic Robot Works is a New York-based group of artists, engineers 
and technicians working together to create robotic performances and 
installations. Chico MacMurtrie describes his vision, "The work is an 
ongoing endeavor to uncover the primacy of movement and sound. Each 
machine is inspired or influenced, both, by modern society, and what 
I physically experience and sense. The whole of this input informs my 
ideas and work." The Amorphic Society includes more than 100 
interactive and computer-controlled human and abstract machines 
ranging in size from 30 centimetres high to 10 metres long.
www.amorphicrobotworks.org

ROBOTIC ARTS WORKSHOP : The Creation of Robotic Arts

The Robotic Arts Workshop will serve as a practical and theoretical 
platform for the creation of new generations of robotic sculpture and 
installation. The event will urge the creation of robotic arts by 
Australian artists, as the Workshop provides a hands-on exploration 
of robotic technologies. Drawn from national registration, artists 
and robot makers will take part in the workshop and assist Chico 
MacMurtrie in the building of the robotic structures for the 
exhibition.

ChicoMacMurtrie and two other crew members from Amorphic Robot Works 
are conducting the Robotic Arts Workshop in relation to their 
upcoming exhibition at the Experimental Art Foundation entitled  
Inflatable Bodies : A New Generation of Robotic Sculpture from 
Amorphic Robot Works as part of the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts 
2006. (The exhibition will take place in the period March 2 - April 
8, 2006)
ARW will arrive with new work created specifically for the 
installation, and will be equipped with the tools to create new site 
specific inflatable robotic elements from scratch.

The Workshop will allow participants to get involved in all of the 
aspects of completing this complex installation, including: sewing 
new inflatables, gluing new inflatables, installing feedback sensors, 
programming max, and other midi software, hooking up pneumatic 
systems, wiring, modeling components on the computer, using rhino, 
lamina design and solid works, welding aluminum parts.

Workshop Dates: February 24 - March 7, 2006
Venue: Experimental Art Foundation

Australian Artists of all types and technicians interested in art can 
come together each bringing their talent and hopefully walking away 
with new incite and skill to contribute to there own work. After the 
installation opens on Thursday 2 March, the Workshop  will continue 
to introduce new elements to the installation each day.

Please contact EAF if you can lend the following equipment and or skills :
-Aluminum welder/metal workshop;
-Computer that can run or have installed  the following cad packages: 
Solid Works Rhino, Lamina Design;
-Industrial sewing machines;
-Expert in max and servo control


Registration: You can express your interest to take part in the 
workshop by e-mail to director at eaf.asn.au
Please write ROBOTIC ARTS WORKSHOP in the Subject line.
The deadline to express interest is February 1, 2006.
Capacity of the workshop: 8 - 12 participants will be selected for 
the workshop.
The registration for the Workshop is free.
Travel and stay for the interstate participants is at cost to the participant.

Additional activity:
Public Lecture, Chico MacMurtrie The Creation of Robotic Arts
4 - 6 PM MONDAY 6  MARCH 2006
MERCURY CINEMA, Lion Arts Centre, 13 Morphett Street, Adelaide, South Australia

*Chico MacMurtrie's residency, workshop and exhibition in Australia 
has been made possible with the assistance of the South Australian 
Government through Arts SA's Artist in Residence Program, and by the 
Australian Government through the Visual Arts Board of the Australia 
Council.

The EAF is supported by the Australian Government through the 
Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the 
South Australian Government through Arts SA. The EAF is also 
supported through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative 
of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.
The EAF is a member of Contemporary Arts Organisations Australia.

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EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION curates its exhibition program to 
represent new work that expands current debates and ideas in 
contemporary visual art. The EAF incorporates a gallery space, 
bookshop and artists studios.

Lion Arts Centre North Terrace at Morphett Street Adelaide * PO Box 
8091 Station Arcade South Australia 5000 * Tel: +618 8211 7505  * Fax 
+618 8211 7323 * eaf at eaf.asn.au  * Bookshop: eafbooks at eaf.asn.au * 
http://www.eaf.asn.au * Director: Melentie Pandilovski

The Experimental Art Foundation is assisted by the Commonwealth 
Government through the Australia Council, it arts funding and 
advisory body and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA. 
The EAF is also supported through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, 
an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments.