Kristoffer Myskja, ‘Smoking Machine’ (2007)
Go to his website to see the machine (and many more) in action).
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Arthur Ganson
Arthur Ganson, ‘Machine with concrete’ (1992)
Each worm/worm gear pair reduces the speed of the motor by 1/50th. Since there are 12 pairs of gears, the final speed reduction is calculated by (1/50)12. The implications are quite large. With the motor turning around 200 revolutions per minute, it will take well over two trillion years before the final gear makes but one turn.
Sigmar Polke
‘Machine that can make one potato orbit another one (Apparat, mit dem eine Kartoffel eine andere umkreisen kann)’ (1969) by Sigmar Polke.
Michael Kontopoulis
‘Machines that Almost Fall Over’ (2008) by Michael Kontopoulos.
A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse.
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Small oil disaster @ Cacaofabriek
I visited the Cacaofabriek in Helmond yesterday. One day earlier the road right next to the cacaofabriek collapsed under the weight of a huge construction machine, that happened to pass by. The machine hit a water pipe which caused the basement of the Cacaofabriek to be flooded with 200.000 liters of water. In that basement a work was installed by artist Hans van der Ham, that was partly made out of many liters of crude oil. The result was an amazing miniature oil disaster!
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