Artist29: Arthur Ganson

Arthur Ganson is another machine artist/kinetic sculptor, using the principles of engineering to create his work. He uses his pieces as logic exercises to understand movement and other processes. He takes many trivial processes - like opening a hand fan - and dissects them down to their most basic aspects with his machines. Arthur Ganson's TED Talk:

Much of his work has little-to-no concept behind it. Like artists I've discussed before, it is the process itself which is the goal. The piece produced is an expression of that process, that experience. Other times, specifically in his exploding chair piece, he takes on more substantial, but still vague, like the idea of a the ephemerality of time and moment. Mostly though, his work is the product of his love of problem solving and tinkering. He discusses in the TED Talk about the ambiguity and vapid nature of much of his art. His machine which does nothing but oil itself, the 4-foot long contraption that simply makes a wish bone walk across a table, and many of his other pieces are similarly made with only the most innocent, simple intentions. The only thing resembling a central idea in his art - also discussed in the TED Talk - is his desire to see a piece come 'full circle' from his mind to physical space and then to the mind of a viewer. The joy of communication and tinkering, nothing more, drives his physically and logically complex art.