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DIY Art Machines



Artist/Inventor Bruce Shapiro uses his home-made motion machines to manipulate materials making morphing art.


Shapiro, both excited by the possibillites of robotics as a new art form, and disapointed by the expense deterent, has spent the last 15 years building his art machines out of inexpensive or free materials and publishes both the projects and workshops on his website. His works deal with the fluidity of time it takes to make a project and often the final product is the process itelf, putting the art machine creating the work in progress on display. His mediums are also time based and efemeral materials, such as eggs, sand, bubbles and wind.


The idea of process as product has been around in the art world for some time, but now with the evolution of robotics, just who or what is doing the producing is getting a little obscured. Such as with Mark Esper's Drawing and Erasing Machines. he creats the robots who create the drawing, but is unwilling to show the drawing as the final product.

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