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Thrush Box (3D Digital Prototype)

March 20, 2015 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in STEVEN LAURIE

Thrush Box is a sound-based mechanical work that uses the low-frequency end of double bass drum sound files to generate and expel “exhaust”. Through a simple one-way air value system under the air intake filter, the six subwoofers, like traditional engine pistons intake air through the red filter at the top and expel spent air, […]

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.

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Rubén Ortiz Torres

October 7, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in contemporary art, Inspiration, Research

Ruben Ortiz-Torres was born in Mexico City in 1964. Educated within the utopian models of republican Spanish anarchism soon confronted the tragedies and cultural clashes of post colonial third world. After giving up the dream of playing baseball in the major leagues he decided to study art. He went first to the oldest and one […]

Industrial Revelation

September 6, 2011 | Posted by stevenlauriecom in

When Walter Benjamin said “[…] the work of art reproduced becomes the work of art designed for reproducibility”, he was referring to the idea that the mechanical reproduction of artworks was changing some aspects of how art was produced and perceived. Notions of authenticity and the “originality” of an art object were drifting. Since Benjamin’s […]