View Full Version : Otto, Victor, scalable, robotic chalk-drawing machines, Switzerland
Airicist
23rd January 2016, 02:32
Maker - Jürg Lehni
juerglehni.com (http://juerglehni.com)
Home pages
Otto - juerglehni.com/works/otto (http://juerglehni.com/works/otto)
Victor - juerglehni.com/works/viktor (http://juerglehni.com/works/viktor)
vimeo.com/lehni (https://vimeo.com/lehni)
twitter.com/juerglehni (https://twitter.com/juerglehni)
Airicist
23rd January 2016, 02:33
https://vimeo.com/16379803
Viktor – 5000 Years of Chairs
October 31, 2000
Viktor, Jurg Lehni, 2006
DC motors, tool head, sprung steel reels, cables, custom made controller, Scriptographer software
Produced with Defekt GmbH, with support of Swiss Federal Office of Culture and Migros
The video shows Viktor illustrating the lecture «5000 Years of Chairs» by Michael Marriott about the development of the world through advances in chair making technologies spanning five thousand years. The talk was hold on the occasion of the exhibition «A Recent History of Writing & Drawing» by Jurg Lehni & Alex Rich, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2008.
Airicist
23rd January 2016, 02:35
https://vimeo.com/129666491
OTTO – Footnotes from the History of Two Cultures: Mitsuo Katsui
June 3, 2015
OTTO, Jurg Lehni, 2014
Brushless DC motors, chalk tool head, sprung steel reels, cables, custom made controller, Paper.js software
Based on VIKTOR, and developed further as part of a commission by the Long
Airicist
23rd January 2016, 02:36
https://youtu.be/GpQzIaH90f8
Meet Otto, the drawing robot
Published on Jan 22, 2016
A wall-mounted robot draws vector shapes based on input from a computer. The robot is installed as an art exhibit at The Interval, a cafe in San Francisco. We interviewed the maker of the robot, Jurg Lehni, and he discusses its purpose and the philosophy behind the robot's form and function.