Otto, Victor, scalable, robotic chalk-drawing machines, Switzerland

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Maker - Jürg Lehni

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Otto - juerglehni.com/works/otto

Victor - juerglehni.com/works/viktor

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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.

 

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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

 

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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.