After teardown.....................drinks!!, but only a few.
tee hee hee
and the winners are....
Is the suspence killing you? well wait no more.
first you may ask so what are the wonderful prizes for such an event?
the answer is
it is not the best picture, these wonderful plushies are the artbots 2005 logo creatures in three dimesions made by Monster Factory, (canadian).
okay and the winner for the audience choice is.......
Garnet Hertz for his cockroach powered robot.
the winner for the artist choice goes to.......
Elias Crespin for his work Malla Electrocinética #1
Artbots is now over and it is quiet. Everyone is packing up
Bye Artbots it was a great time.
Saturday has come and gone, a very busy day, lots of people coming through the space, and lots of good responces to the works.it seems that the kids really like Escape by peter o'kennedy 
and Lara Greene's You move me. As for the adults it is hard to say some really like the WATSCHENDISKURS by Frank Fietzek and Uli Winter
and Elias's Malla Electrocinética #1
This is a talent show afterall, and there are prizes to be won. Audience's pick and artist's pick I am not telling what the prizes are you will all have to wait for the next post.
here is a small QT of scale moving
Download P1010003.MOV
it is 2.2 megs
After we shut down for the day a few of us went off to Howth which is a town 20 min north of dublin by train. there is a pier and then you can do walks along the cliffs. We were a bit tired to walk so we went to the beach to watch the sunset.
here are Christian Gützer and Emanuel Andel of Shockbot fame
and here are myself and William Tremblay of wave puppet fame.
It is really nice here a change from the downtown of Dublin i think I am going to come back here and do the cliff walk.
Well it is 11:00am and time to go to the church for day three of artbots!!!
I have to start lobbying for votes.
more pics less yapping
pics from the opening party.
okay party over lets go out for a beer.
no not outside of the church lets go to a pub.
that is more like it
Bjorn says cheers and see you tomorrow.
no typing just pics
here are some pic of scale
really I am making a piece
want to see.....
I really have no pictures at this point, I will take some tomorrow.
this is jessica (seated) and amanda (standing) their work is the Altoids pice Mark is helping put together some circuits.
Where are the women you say..
So here it is thursday the day before the opening. What has happened since i last logged on. One thing I have noticed about the pictures is that you may say "hey Erika where the hell are the women making the robots? Didn't you show us a picture of Lara and her piece....how has she progressed...take a look.
there she is with her cousin in the blue shirt and boyfriend in the red shirt at this point i cannot remember names, forgive me. As far as I can tell Lara's piece is completely manual, her marionette is in the center and there are a series of levers around the piece that you can manipulate to make the marionette move, I am looking forward to trying out the piece.
Did you ask yourself...what are those orange things on the wall? this is Bjorn's piece Nervous.
here is Bjorn and Lara's cousin notice eyes kinda half closed, then notice empty pint glasses on the table.
Editor's Note,
please be advised that most postings are greatly exaggerated
long day
good evening,
a long but productive day for myself and all the other artists here.
first I would like to show some picks from the last two days.
these are two images of the large hall of SS.michael's and john's church the bulk of the works will be in this space. there are two ajoining hallways and anti rooms where the other works will be.
whooo what the hell is garnet doing here, man, one can't get away from those dam Canadians. (pst. he has bugs)
Separated at birth,Ryan Wolfe (Field of Grass) and Mark Esper A Circle of Friends (circle of friends)
breakfast with left to right Mathaius (jukebots) (sp), Garnet Erika, and Brett. later that night we went the Ark for Mathaius's jukebot robot performance consisting of two auto assembly robots scratching records.
WOOOAHHHAHFH WHAT THE HELL!!!
Enough of this foolin around got to make some art now where to find a tree in down town dublin?
nope not there
whoa they are on both sides of the street!!
where to find a dead tree??
hey a dead tree in the middle of Dublin. tune in later to see what happens.
le voila
welll it is 12:30 am in Dublin and i mostly have pics to show. First of all \i have some pics of some of the people who are here. but more first than that...the entrance.
SAVE THE ROBOTS!!!!
this is Lara Green and her piece You Move Me.
hummm potato Chips at marks and sparks
This internet cafe is closing so I have to stop.....and sleep.
artboty
the art has arrived and all is well. the venue is an old church in the medieval district of downtown Dublin, it has been restored and functions as a cultural venue. here are some pics.
this is Brett J. Doar working on ROBOZOIC Check out artbots.org for info on his piece.
This is where scale is going to be, it is a ramp that goes around the outside walls of a pit sounds odd but the idea will be to mount the wood on the wall and place the speaker boxes around the ramp so as you walk up you are walking through the sounds.
I am off to look for some wood.
Scale
Here is a picture of Scale at Ace Art Gallery in Winnipeg.
I will be building a new version of Scale when I get to
Dublin....the general idea will be the same (reactive motorized
branches scratching contact mics and broacasting the sounds) but the
shape will change based on what wood I find lying around Dublin. This
will be interesting....
Wish me luck on my wood hunt!
