Axel Straschnoy

I will be participating in the symposium Senses of the Political that is held June 8 & 9 at Jyväskylä University.

Program

The Taste of Metal
Art by Robots for Robots

Public demo on Friday, December 4, 2009 at 5 pm
(performance begins at 5:30)
Gates Hillman Center Room 2109
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA

The Taste of Metal is the first public presentation of The New Artist, a project to develop purely robotic art: art that is made by robots for other robots.

The New Artist takes place at the Robotics Institute and is the result of the collaborative efforts of Ben Brown, Geoff Gordon, Sue Ann Hong, Marek Michalowski, Paul Scerri, Axel Straschnoy, Iheanyi Umez-Eronini and Garth Zeglin. It is produced by Piritta Puhto.

The New Artist has been supported by the Alfred Kordelin Foundation, Promotion Centre for Audiovisual Culture (AVEK), National Arts Council (Finland), Uusimaa Arts Council, and Carnegie Mellon’s Collaborative Machining Center and STUDIO for Creative Inquiry.

Take the Gates Building elevator to the second floor and follow the signs.

For more information call 412-268-3454 or go to http://axel.straschnoy.com/robots

For the last couple of years I have been working on a project to make a book that could work as a catalogue of my recent pieces. The prototype of this book was finished late last year and was exhibited in January at the Finnish Museum of Photography.

Now, in order to produce it, I am making a sale of prints. Each one is printed on Somerset Enhanced A3+ paper with pigment inks. They are available for 55 euros plus shipping from this website or you can write to opening@straschnoy.com for more information.