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	Arthur Ganson

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10-2-2009 8:58 AM

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art, existentialism, machines, motion, contemplation

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Not exactly steam punk, hard to define, captivating form of art. by Arthur Ganson. A talk, a meditative walk, an experience

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contraptions tell stories, meaning and motion are all but inseparable</I></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/criticaleye/ce980813.htm"><DIV>
<FONT size="5">A</FONT>rthur Ganson works, as very few artists do, with machines. He builds
subtle mechanisms that magnify and reflect on aspects of existence.
Given his medium it's at first tempting to think of his work as a throwback to
the eighteenth century, with its belief in a clockwork universe activated at
the beginning of time by a divine being -- a clockmaker -- then left to run in
accordance with the laws of Newtonian mechanics. It was an age with a passion
for automatons -- Jacques de Vaucanson's duck, for example, which was rigged to
swim, swallow, and produce excrement. According to one contemporary account,
this duck "performed all the quick motions of the head and throat which are
peculiar to the living animal, and ... also the sound of quacking." </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/3ABB5FEF-CAB7-418B-A6E3-FA275937A01D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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