٠٠:٠٤:٥٥An art installation at Tokyo's Ueno Park has incorporated robots previously used in a BMW factory to rake and draw in a bed of basalt and granite gravel, creating patterns based on athletes' movements at the Tokyo Games.
"The artwork is using and being inspired by data, which we are capturing from footage from the Olympics and past Olympics. We are taking that data and developing performances that are being created within this landscape and the performances or the performers are these four industrial past life automotive robots," said Jason Bruges whose London-based design studio installed the artwork and opened it to the public on Wednesday.
Japan: Retired BMW robots draw athletes' movements at Tokyo Games
An art installation at Tokyo's Ueno Park has incorporated robots previously used in a BMW factory to rake and draw in a bed of basalt and granite gravel, creating patterns based on athletes' movements at the Tokyo Games.
"The artwork is using and being inspired by data, which we are capturing from footage from the Olympics and past Olympics. We are taking that data and developing performances that are being created within this landscape and the performances or the performers are these four industrial past life automotive robots," said Jason Bruges whose London-based design studio installed the artwork and opened it to the public on Wednesday.
An art installation at Tokyo's Ueno Park has incorporated robots previously used in a BMW factory to rake and draw in a bed of basalt and granite gravel, creating patterns based on athletes' movements at the Tokyo Games.
"The artwork is using and being inspired by data, which we are capturing from footage from the Olympics and past Olympics. We are taking that data and developing performances that are being created within this landscape and the performances or the performers are these four industrial past life automotive robots," said Jason Bruges whose London-based design studio installed the artwork and opened it to the public on Wednesday.