The Automata Art of Steve Armstrong

October 10, 2009 4:22 AM

The Automata Art of Steve Armstrong. Part I, Part II, Part III.
posted by twoleftfeet (9 comments total)

Thank you, this is wonderful.
I love watching him work; he's making such beautiful things.
posted by louche mustachio at 6:17 AM on October 10

Wow, this is great. He has such beautiful and odd ideas.
posted by mediareport at 6:25 AM on October 10

This is really cool, thanks for sharing!
posted by selfnoise at 8:11 AM on October 10

So beautiful and strange. I'd love to see his works in person, they seem so alive even on video. Awesome find, twoleftfeet.
posted by donnagirl at 8:57 AM on October 10

(Cellular) Automata have such different meanings for me. This was a delight, nonetheless. Cheers.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 11:17 AM on October 10

What Blazecock said; this is really neat, but in an orange-juice-when-you're-expecting-milk sort of way. Heh.
posted by cortex at 11:35 AM on October 10

Thanks for the post.

I wonder if of Frank fame and mr. Armstrong are familiar with each other.

Woodring makes, well, I guess it's called "comics", though don't feel like reading regular comics any more than reading Daniel Clowes' stuff does. Sometimes he makes up really nice automata and paints them.
posted by krilli at 4:45 AM on October 11

Oh! HTML / Live Preview / Safari ate my TXT, sorry about that. What I meant to say was:

I wonder if Jim Woodring of Frank fame and mr. Armstrong are familiar with each other.
posted by krilli at 4:51 AM on October 11

One of my undergraduate art professors was Jack Girard, who is interviewed in the video. I first saw Steve's work as an undergraduate as he and Jack would frequently show together.

I recently had the pleasure of meeting Steve Armstrong as he came to my current school to hear a guest lecturer on contemporary art. We went to dinner afterward and he and his wife were both very pleasant and interesting people to speak to. Thanks for the video!
posted by Slothrop at 7:50 AM on October 11