Joshua Parker

Autonomous Contemporary Orchestra

(from Arte Povera For The Modern Age)

steel, vice grips, wood scraps, a bearing, aluminum, string, wire, photo cells, shrink tubing, resistor, transistor, battery pack, motor, propellor, tape, radios, AM frequencies, desk lamp, LEDs, light, momentum, nuts and a bolt

detail of the moment when the propellor coasts over the strip light re-energizing the propellor just enough to keep the mobile autonomously spinning

2008

10'