Axel Straschnoy

How to Build a Dishwasher is the first full presentation of The New Artist, a project to develop art by and for robots undertaken by Ben Brown, Garth Zeglin, Geoff Gordon, Iheanyi Umez-Eronini, Marek Michalowski, Paul Scerri and Sue Ann Hong and Axel Straschnoy. It is being produced by Piritta Puhto.

The opening takes place on Friday March 26 at the Kerava Art Museum in the context of the Pixelache festival, starting with a seminar at 15:00.

Our project The New Artist has been granted a honorable mention in the 6th Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires - Telefónica Foundation Prize and will be part of an exhibition at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires, opening March 16.

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

I am participating in Art Fair Suomi with my project Opening

ART FAIR SUOMI 09
26.9.-4.10.2009
Finland’s Most Versatile Sales Exhibition of Contemporary Art.
Free entrance.

Cable Factory, Tallberginkatu 1 C, 00180 Helsinki, Finland.
http://www.artfairsuomi.fi

In the context of the Helsinki Photography Festival, my work Opening will be exhibited at the Finnish Photography Museum from Wednesday, January 21st until Sunday, February 15th.

I will also be giving a lecture on the context and the process of development of this work within the related symposium on Friday, January 23rd.