Aesthetic Explorations: Theo Jansen and His Strandbeest
Aesthetics Exploration, engineering, kinetic art, machine, Outsider art, Sand, Strandbeest, surreal, surrealism, Theo Jansen, Upcycle, walking machine
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Theo Jansen, a dropout physicist become artist, has created his very own aesthetic. In 1980, Jansen began with 1500 combinations of 11 linkage sizes. Using a new technology at the time, a computer was utilized to dwindle the different configurations down to just one golden combination, the “eleven holy numbers”. These numbers allowed for the…
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