The proposed unrealized project tentatively titled Intravenous Robot Painting Arm Extension Version #1 would be comprised of IV tubing and a variation of my microbot—an amoeba of a robot built with a paintbrush, a 3VDC Micro Vibration Motor, and a 3V lithium battery. The robot would slowly extract blood from my arm (perhaps with the help of a microcontroller pump) and apply it to various display materials including wood, canvas, and paper. The brush itself, built as slight variation of the Bristlebot model, would function autonomously despite being leashed to my arm, indefinitely gyrating in circles and unanticipated patterns fostering unique and “abstract expressionist” renderings.
More Information: For a video of the Graphite Drawing Microbot Version: http://www.peterchristenson.com/robot.html
Artist Statement: I am a burned out psychotherapist and multidisciplinary artist who makes all kinds of things that concurrently do and do not do stuff. Regularly performing sans pants, I have also been known to stand in one place for an inordinately long duration of time and design amoeba-like robots that dance in my spewing blood.
I often employ pseudo-scientific research methodologies to my projects, none of which have ever garnered approval from the IRB, and I record practically everything. I am wholly committed to ameliorating my Mysophobic tendencies, writing novels that tickle fancies, and burying objects of nominal value in national parks and within churches of every denomination.
Peter T. Christenson Email: christensonpeter@hotmail.com Web: www.leftofcentre.org Phone: (773) 771.4505
The proposed unrealized project tentatively titled Intravenous Robot Painting Arm Extension Version #1 would be comprised of IV tubing and a variation of my microbot—an amoeba of a robot built with a paintbrush, a 3VDC Micro Vibration Motor, and a 3V lithium battery. The robot would slowly extract blood from my arm (perhaps with the help of a microcontroller pump) and apply it to various display materials including wood, canvas, and paper. The brush itself, built as slight variation of the Bristlebot model, would function autonomously despite being leashed to my arm, indefinitely gyrating in circles and unanticipated patterns fostering unique and “abstract expressionist” renderings.
More Information: For a video of the Graphite Drawing Microbot Version: http://www.peterchristenson.com/robot.html
Artist Statement: I am a burned out psychotherapist and multidisciplinary artist who makes all kinds of things that concurrently do and do not do stuff. Regularly performing sans pants, I have also been known to stand in one place for an inordinately long duration of time and design amoeba-like robots that dance in my spewing blood.
I often employ pseudo-scientific research methodologies to my projects, none of which have ever garnered approval from the IRB, and I record practically everything. I am wholly committed to ameliorating my Mysophobic tendencies, writing novels that tickle fancies, and burying objects of nominal value in national parks and within churches of every denomination.
Peter T. Christenson Email: christensonpeter@hotmail.com Web: www.leftofcentre.org Phone: (773) 771.4505