Dan Roe
Sculptural Robotics and Other Curious
Artifacts
solar
kinetic sculpture, static sculpture, and assorted aesthetic experiments
art
works
exhibitions
links
information
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E-mail:
roedan@gmail.com
Selected exhibitions of artificial anatomies, aesthetic technologies, gizmos, etc.: · Collision XV at Axiom Gallery, Jamaica Plain, MA · Selections 2010 at the Bakalar and Paine Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA · Techniche 2009 at The Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, Assam, India · Kshitij 2009 at The Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. · The Art of Science at the Scollay Square Gallery, 3rd floor, Boston City Hall, One City Hall Plaza, Boston, MA 02201. Showing from September 26-November 4, 2005. Curated by John Crowley. · The Ballad of Wires and Hands at The New Art Center, 61 Washington Park, Newtonville, MA 02460-1915. On exhibition from April 25-May 23, 2003. Opening Friday, May 2, 6-8pm. Curated by Dana Moser. · hypercollision at the MIT Museum, 265 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA. On exhibition from N ovember 1-3, 2002, Opening Friday, Nov. 1, 5-8pm. Curated by Jackbackrack. · Electroland at Oni Gallery, 684 Washington Street, Boston, MA. On exhibition from November 30-December 22, 2001. Opening Friday, Nov. 30, 7-10pm. Curated by Dana Moser. · Boston Art Windows, a joint project of Mayor Thomas M. Menino, the City of Boston, the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA), and the Collision Collective. Curated by Jackbackrack.· nominee for the 2010 World Technology Award for Arts |
Selected
press,
blogs,
and
other: · Robot Magazine Engadget Gizmodo Robot Living Green Diary Hackaday Impact Lab Wired Gadget Lab Geekie Gadgets Neatorama Nerdiest Kids Botropolis Ubergizmo Robot News Week Microsiervos Radiocool.lt Robot Sky Tecnocino Make Blog Servo Magazine (Dec. '03), Wellesley College Newspaper, Art Daily, Costruisci e programma il tuo robot
· for more biographical information and technical background refer to my poster originally created for Techniche '09, the annual techno-management festival held at IIT Guwahati, India (and please forgive my pedantry). |
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-a kind exerpt from Cate McQuaid's Boston Globe article, "Taming technology's overload with artful systems" "...Curator
Dana
Moser
has
put
together
a
robotics
show,
''The
Ballad
of
Wires
and
Hands,''
at
the New
Art
Center, which has its opening tonight, and it's got plenty of
metaphorical (and
some actual) bells and whistles. It's fun, but is it more than magic? Sometimes.
A
handful
of
the
pieces
are
hauntingly
beautiful,
like
Dan
Roe's
''Sisyphus
Dreams''
series,
in
which he explores the struggle of the man destined
by the
Greek gods to spend his life pushing a stone up a hill, only to watch
it roll
down again. Roe turns Sisyphus into an electronic moth, in one piece
batting
hopelessly against the inside of a glass dome. In another, tied by the
tail to
a rock..." |
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