VIDEO CLIP There are a few wonderful period French newsreel clips showing Lalanne's Tortoise and other sculptures found here Gaumont Pathe Archives . You have to be registered (free) and logged in to see the preview. Search for "lalanne" without the quotes and look at all three clips from 1966-1970. François-Xavier Lalanne's Radio controlled tortoise (Tortue Bar Angelique). …
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From the late 1960's through to the mid 1980's, various Russian hobby magazines published plans for model walking machines. Here are a few of them (in Russian): click image for pdf.
Height : 1m (3.2 ft) Electric motor operated Radio remote controlled Sound produced by tape recorder Unique piece Private collection Radio-controlled gilt (gold leaf gilding) resin whisky table with agate tray. Arthur comes and welcomes visitors carrying tumblers and a whisky decanter in its tray while moving its neck, mouth, wings, and claws and making …
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"Seek", 1970 by Nicholas Negroponte with the Architecture Machine Group , M.I.T. Originally shown at the "Software" exhibition, curated by Jack Burnham for the Jewish Museum in New York 1970. This piece consisted of a Plexiglass encased, computer-controlled environment full of small blocks and inhabited by gerbils, who continuously changed the position of the blocks. Following instructions …
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zig – 1965 – styrofoam, motors. Above: Float. 1967. Osaka-1, Expo '70 Robert Breer Born in Detroit, 1926. 1949, after graduation from Stanford University (where he won the annual printing award), moved to Paris. Exhibited in group shows there at the Denise René Gallery from 1950 to 1955, and in 1955 participated …
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