Client: Melbourne City Council Location: Middle Promenade, North Wharf, Docklands Features: Human powered electricity generator driving multiple LED/fibreoptic lights, cast sterling silver automata (internal) Materials: Stainless steel, bronze, copper, electro-mechanical components Completed: 2014 Another work in my ‘imagined histories’ series the Apparatus for Transtemporal Occurrence…
Apparatus for Non-destructive Transmission of Biological Visualisation
Client: Moreton Bay Regional Council Location: Marine Parade, Redcliffe Materials: Stainless Steel, Cast Aluminium Features: hand-wound electricity generator powering LED lighting and internal automata Completed: 2011 Invented in the early 19th century by eccentric naturalist Franz Andriessen, the device is believed have…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #1
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was born…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #2
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #3
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey…
Apparatus for Viewing Transdimensional Mechatronic Variants of a Set Cause #4
Client: Project Services, Queensland State Government Materials: cast bronze, stainless steel, copper brass, found vintage objects, LEDs, DC generators, super capacitors Features: human-powered Edwardian-era underwater views of Brisbane Completed: September 2010 In Brisbane, 2008, nothing is known of a Cornelius Dempsey who was born…
Wind Me Up Baby
Client: Woodford Folk Festival Materials: super capacitors, cast bronze, steel, LEDs, DC generator, copper, brass, stainless steel Features: free energy(the price of some exercise) Completed: December 2008 A human powered pedestrian light. Wind the handle and store electrical energy into the super…
Apparatus for Attracting Attention
Client: Ideas Festival – State Government of Queensland Materials: recycled bikes and components, steel, vinyl sticker Features: designed to demonstrate multiple mechanisms of movements and is operated by a single lever Completed: 2005 The machine was created solely from bicycle parts to…