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Beer Can Launcher

June 27, 2014 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art

The Beer Can Launcher is a mechanical work being designed for the sole purpose of crushing and launching beer cans into the sky. Playing along with the idea of drinking as a right of passage, this machine provides participants with the opportunity to celebrate their momentary drinking achievements one drink at a time.

Jean-Pierre Gauthier – Machine Artist

July 11, 2012 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in Artist, contemporary art, Research

Battements et papillons / Beats and Butterflies Marqueurs d’incertitude / Uncertainty Marker Marqueurs d’incertitude / Uncertainty Markers (detail) Except from artist website When the Eyes Imbibe Noise Noise surrounds us, it is inside us, it is everywhere. It besieges us constantly. It is a dishevelled heap, a sonorous and protean mass in […]

Jonathan Schipper – machine artist

July 8, 2012 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in Artist, Research

SLOW INEVITABLE DEATH OF AMERICAN MUSCLE SLOW MOTION CAR CRASH Excerpt for artist website: This sculpture is a machine that advances two full sized automobiles slowly into one another over a period of 6 days, simulating a head on automobile collision. Each car moves about three feet into the other. The movement is so slow […]

Donut Machine on toolmonger

March 22, 2012 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in Artist, contemporary art

Link to article – http://toolmonger.com/2008/06/04/its-just-cool-donut-machine/

Exhibition…CLUTCH at UWAG

October 22, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art, Exhibitions

January 12–March 3, 2012 Opening reception: Thursday, January 12 from 5:00–8:00 pm Gallery One Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores, Brandon Vickerd CLUTCH The exhibition bands Steven Laurie, Zeke Moores and Brandon Vickerd together as an artist pit crew with the gallery as their ersatz garage. Using industrial fabrication, bronze casting and kitbashing, the artist’s sculptures reflect […]

Art of the Motor on Garage Blog

September 22, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art, Exhibitions, STEVEN LAURIE

Steven Laurie: Art of the Motor By Gary Grant One of the fun things about publishing The Garage is being invited to all sorts of cool automotive events. Never mind that most of them are hundreds, if not thousands of miles away, it’s just neat to know that all this fun automotive stuff is going […]

Donut Machine – Barrie ON machine demonstration

September 10, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art, Exhibitions, STEVEN LAURIE

Donut Machine 2007 (Video Still Image from MacLaren Art Center demo)

Speed Demon

September 9, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art, Exhibitions, STEVEN LAURIE

Exhibition: Speed Demon – Museum London Speed Demon July 9th, 2011 to September 25th, 2011 Museum London: Ivey North and Centre Galleries Drawing upon the Italian Futurist manifesto “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed” this exhibition is inspired by the ever quickening pace of contemporary life. […]