Shih Chieh Huang’s recycled bots
posted Jul 23rd 2008 1:45pm by Kimberly Laufiled under: news, robots hacks
We’re really sorry to have missed GLOW. It was a unique all-night art and music event that took place the evening of July 19, 2008, in Santa Monica, and lasted until dawn. We were most intrigued by [Shih Chieh Huang]’s haunting robotic sculptures. They were eerily beautiful, and appeared to be alive and “breathing”. He took some unusual materials – plastic bags and bottles, computer fans and circuit boards, among others, and combined them all to give the creatures otherworldly auras. Simultaneously familiar and strange, the sculptures are designed to evoke marine life, yet they’re completely different, in both materials and structure. More coverage and pictures of the event can be found at LAist, NOTCOT, and on Flickr.





@ all ‘that’s not a hack’ whiners – Go whine somewhere else.
If you had paid attention to the ‘art’ in question you would have noticed that they are hacked-together bits of hardware and other materials doing something the original designers never intended, ie. a Hack and falling under the stated purpose of this site.
If you don’t like how hack-a-day is run start your own site and see how well you do.
Posted at 3:53 pm on Jul 23rd, 2008 by Me