That's Plenty

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.