A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Topic(s): Arts | Engineering
Tags: robotics performance audience+control
My small crew and I would like to bring two large radio-controlled robots, the Subjugator and the Manipulatrix, as well as a mortar-style air cannon, and stage a series of small performances. For the pleasure of the machines and the audience alike, we would like to construct a purpose-built prop for these performances. The prop will interact gingerly with the robots until the last performance, at which point it will be devoured! The most exciting aspect, however, will be that the prop will be constructed atop a radio-controlled walking robotic base, that members of the audience will control! The air cannon will also be under audience control.
(If our proposal is accepted, there is a good possibility that I would bring an entire second performance of a very different type. This is a short theatrical piece entitled AMORTEC, and is a collaboration between stilt performer Christina Sporrong and yet another robot of mine, the HD6LAW. A video of the only performance of AMORTEC yet staged can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXR4vYPbuZw† )
My small crew and I will bring two large radio-controlled robots, the Subjugator and the Manipulatrix, as well as a mortar-style air cannon, and stage a series of small performances. For the pleasure of the machines and the audience alike, we will construct a purpose-built prop for these performances. The prop will interact gingerly with the robots until the last performance, at which point it will be devoured! The most exciting aspect, however, will be that the prop will be constructed atop a radio-controlled walking robotic base, that members of the audience will control! The air cannon will also be under audience control.
Additional photos can be found at:
Subjugator:
http://www.christianristow.com/images/subhellcodebut.jpg
http://www.christianristow.com/images/subjugatorandcr.jpg
Manipulatrix:
http://www.christianristow.com/images/manipu1.jpg
http://www.christianristow.com/images/manipu4.jpg
Air Cannon:
http://bp3.blogger.com/_-Vz5gxzaQJw/RnyR8NQ1eTI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/PrYzMW_4Uzo/s1600-h/DSC02351.JPG
Preliminary drawing for Audience-controlled Spider-Clown prop:
http://www.christianristow.com/images/doylespiderclown.jpg
HD6LAW, the robot in AMORTEC:
http://www.christianristow.com/images/hd6lawforweb.jpg
Still photo from AMORTEC:
http://www.christianristow.com/images/amortecimage.jpeg
I am a veteran builder of robots, animatronics, and all things kinetic. I have been staging performances under the name Robochrist Industries for about 10 years, and have built special effects for a number of high-profile films. My new work is incorporating more intimacy with the human form, through formal considerations, performance, and interactivity.
Christina Sporrong is a blacksmith, kinetic sculptor, and circus performer. Her sculptural work has been displayed all over the country and in Europe. Also, through her New Mexico-based smithy, for the last twelve years she has been teaching women from all over the country to forge and weld steel.
Ryan Doyle is a jack of many trades. In addition to being the long-running tall-bike jousting champion of the world, he is a talented fabricator who has worked with Robochrist Intustries, SRL, Burning Man DPW, Black Label Bike Club, David LaChapelle, and many others.For the Maker Faire he resumes his role as PropMaster for Robochrist Industries
