I start this profile of Arthur Ganson with a video of him presenting at TED conference, because I think this is one of those special situations where you get to see the whole span of meaning of the concept of Techne, the greek word where craft, art and technology comes from.
He is defined as a Kinetic sculptor, a form of practitioner of the Arts. His tools for execution though, come from the engineering world, and that crossing make his reflections really interesting; it’s about bringing life and emotion to the inanimate. It’s about choreography of the lifeless.
As a simple lesson for us, he starts his projects with a question: “How can I do that?”, and then explore through physics, mechanics, building, welding (…) his interest in movement and trajectory to solve for the problem arouse from the question. His work is a permanent self proposition of new problems, to allow the execution of trivial, yet joyful solutions, where “the end result is really completely ambiguous”.
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