Robotics

In the late 90s I left NYC and move back to the area where I was born and raised, the Rhode Island/Massachusetts area. There I got married for the third time, bought a house and built my idea studio.

After the intensity of NY I had to reinvent myself as an artists. Leading an art movement in NYC is a wonderful feather in my cap, but it’s not actually making art. Fortunately I had momentum and a reputation for doing innovative things.

In 1999, I was given the opportunity to create two of my favorite installations, Rupture In Cyberspace, at the Attleboro Museum and Under the Volcano, at the DeCordova Museum.

This is the period when I became interested in robotics as it relates to the arts. In 2001, I quite inadvertently founded the Robotics Art Club under which we created several major robotic art performance, including “Dance of the WaterSpiders,” and “The “50-foot Serpent.”

Also in 2001, I met Guy Marsden a brilliant builder and inventor. Together with my good friend Jon Schull we formed the a group called “Art Re-envisions Technology.” Although we experimented with lots of ideas, the best thing to come out of this collaboration is our work in Complexity Theory, “Eight-Bite Ant Farm.”