[spectre] Inflatable Architectural bodies #3

[Melentie Pandilovski]

Inflatable Architectural bodies #3.

1 July – 18 July, 2010

Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works Exhibition / Performance

@ the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
http://www.msuskopje.org.mk/index.php




22  June 2010 – 30 June 2010

Robot building and performance workshop with Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic
Robot Works

@ the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.





Inflatable Architectural bodies #3 is a project comprising exhibition,
workshop, and presentation by Chico MaMurtrie, one of the world's
leading artists using robotic technologies.

Inflatable Architectural bodies #3 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 endeavour 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."

Since the establishment of Amorphic Robot Works in 1992, ARW has
investigated the nature of movement and performance via the creation
of multi-faceted machine-sculptures that play and interact in their
uniquely designed environments. This artistic program has resulted in
the creation of more than 250 mechanical sculptures of various sizes
that assume anthropomorphic and abstract forms. Since inception
Amorphic Robot Works has travelled to 16 countries bringing this
developing form to places that have never experienced it before. In
the process ARW have held numerous workshops, and have continued
collaborations with various participants who have also chosen to take
this direction in their own work.

It is with this spirit that Amorphic Robot Works takes Inflatable
Architectural bodies to Macedonia. Key to the objective is the
commitment to recruiting young artists interested in the Performing
Arts and making robotic sculptures. ARW will teach all aspects from
the designing and assembling to learning how to program these machines
in performance. The project will garner a great deal of interest and
open up the arts in Macedonia. www.amorphicrobotworks.org


The Robotic Arts Workshop will serve as a practical and theoretical
platform for the creation of new generations of robotic sculpture and
installation. The workshop will provide a hands-on exploration of
robotic technologies. 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, modelling
components on the computer, using rhino, lamina design and solid
works, welding aluminium parts.

Students from the Art Academy in Skopje as well as other artists,
robot makers and technicians each bringing their talent will take part
in the workshop by assisting Chico MacMurtrie in the building of the
robotic structures for the exhibition, and hopefully walking away with
new incite and skill to contribute to their own work. There is a
possibility that we can include outside artists or technicians
interested to learn about Robotic Arts. If interested to be a part of
the team please contact the Visual and Cultural Research Centre, Euro
Balkan Institute, about the Robot building and performance workshop
with Chico MacMurtrie/Amorphic Robot Works, to take place at Museum of
Contemporary Arts - Skopje June 22 – 30, 2010.
http://amorphicrobotworks.org/works/index.htm

The deadline to express interest for the Workshop is June 5, 2010.

Capacity of the workshop: 12 participants will be selected for the workshop.

The registration for the Workshop is free.

Travel and stay for the participants outside of Skopje is at cost to
the participant.



_____________________________
Melentie Pandilovski
Director
Visual and Cultural Research Centre
Euro Balkan Institute
Blvd. “Partizanski Odredi” no. 63
1000 Skopje, Macedonia
Tel/fax : + 389 2 307 55 70 , + 389 2 309 07 31
http://euba.edu.mk/eng/index.asp
http://euba.edu.mk/eng/sub.asp?id=395&kat=386
E-mail: visualculturalresearchcentre at gmail.com