peter flemming.ca
machine · electronic · robotic art
selected documentation
Docmentation mostly of work in some state of finished-ness, along with a few prototypes, experiments and more in-progress stuff.
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2008
Twelve stepper motors sing with rotating, resonating panes of broken glass.
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2008
A levitating machine.
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2008
Like a true Foucault pendulum, this is a very simple device. Unlike a true Foucault pendulum, it doesn't prove anything except that the sun is shining.
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2007 - present
This isn't really a discrete artwork, but is more like a technique or a system that can and has been applied to diverse works.
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2007
A maquette for a larger installation. Panning footage of the interior of a massive disused warehouse
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1998-2006
A machine creates a wide spiral of "dust" on the floor, then sweeps it, in an endless cycle. Each cycle takes approximately an hour. Themes: efficiency (cf. Taylorism), futility.
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2000-2006
A mechanized canoe intermittently paddles back and forth across a long trough of water. Themes: mechanization, nature, leisure.
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2005 and 2000
For 25 cents, a discarded Xmas tree trembles pathetically or spins violently, for about 20 seconds.
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2003
An emergency lamp sends morse coded messages to other survivors of an urban disaster, ie. zombie invasion.
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2000-2006
A mechanized canoe paddles back and forth across a long trough of water. Themes: mechanization, nature, leisure.
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2001
How does repetitive orderly motion generate spastic (chaotic) behaviour? Untethered double pendulum.
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1998
Nocturnal machines. Emergent behaviour based artwork.
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