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Audience reaction to the Spacemower included “whats a lawnmower doing in here?”, or all together ignoring it. Making a sculpture that can vanish is a success in my eyes. This sculpture also literally no longer exists.
for DEMO, please find the link to the video on the main page
Spacemower, 2010
This sculpture was inspired by DIY lo-fi noise music instruments, specifically the Atari Punk Console that uses the 555 IC. Typically, DIY APC’s would be housed in either a simple neutral casing like Tupperware or in something totally incongruous like a baby doll head. My intention was to house the APC in a casing that was more suited to the noises that it makes.
I replaced the engine of this lawnmower with an Atari Punk Console patched through a simple amplifier circuit playing out of a 12 inch speaker mounted under the chassis where the blade was, illuminated by LEDS, all battery powered.