Dan Roe
Sculptural Robotics and Other Curious
Artifacts
solar
kinetic sculpture, static sculpture, and assorted aesthetic experiments
Servo
Magazine, December 2003
Big,
Red,
and
Shiny
WBUR,
Art
Daily
The
The
Taming
technology's overload with artful systems
By Cate McQuaid, Globe Correspondent, 5/2/2003
"...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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