Wednesday, February 08, 2006

Peter William Holden

Peter William Holden[EXTRACT]

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"AutoGene" at the Robodock Festival for Art and Technology Amsterdam. Photo Henry Krul
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"AutoGene" at the Robodock Festival for Art and Technology Amsterdam. Photo Henry Krul

Like many men of his generation Holden (alias karotz) grew up suckling on a cathode ray tube, and bathing in radio waves. All this is depicted within his art work, in a collage of movement, light and sound.

The photo to the right and text below gives a brief insight to Holden’s work.

Busby Berkeley choreographed dancers to mimic the motions of machines and modern inventions. “AutoGene” is the flipside of this. It’s a simple aesthetic looking robot composed of eight modified umbrellas mounted in a circular pattern. A cocktail of air hoses and electrical cables join these umbrellas to a central computer which enables “AutoGene” to produce a choreographed dance which erodes the machines mechanical qualities, the overall actions of the machine can no longer judged in terms of productivity and efficiency. Thus emotions are brought into the performance and the merits of the piece can only be drawn from the way the individual is moved.

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