Momoyo Torimitsu, ‘Miyata Jiro’ (1997)
The Japanese (but New York resident) artist Momoyo Torimitsu built a robot that resembles a businessman. It can crawl the streets of whichever city he places it. Video:
Now, the Japanese have put quite some more time and effort into building weird animatronics/robotics. Click on Read More to see a few more examples.
Just to remind you all:
Tomorrow, Friday the 6th, is the opening of Hedwig Houben‘s show @ Galerie Gallery. We would like to invite you all to come to the opening and see new work by Hedwig. Also, she will be doing a live performance, so don’t be late!
Opening @ Galerie Gallery, from 18.30hrs on. Dordtselaan 27e, Rotterdam. (close to metro Maashaven). More info here…
‘America we stand as one’ (2002) by Dennis Madalone. One of the highlights of Whatfilm 2!
Check www.americawestandasone.com with sing along karaoke version!
Yesterday night was the Whatfilm night at the Film Foyer in Tilburg, organised by Whatspace. An evening of nice shortfilms selected by Rotterdam VHS Festival and presented by Niels Post of Trendbeheer. After the Read More some blurry photo impressions:
(More photo’s on Whatspace and Trendbeheer!)
‘Volare’ (1976) by Al Martino (*October 7, 1927 – †October 13, 2009).
See the ‘Volare‘ post from about a month ago.
‘Shoot‘ (1971) by Chris Burden.
Chris Burden was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters. Burden was taken to a psychiatrist after this piece.
