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AMORPHIC ROBOT WORKS                                                                                                             GENESIS + ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

01 FEBRUARY 2011                                                                                                                                                   10 FEBRUARY 2011
FOWLER MUSEUM AUDITORIUM                                                                                                                            FOWLER MUSEUM AUDITORIUM

Chico MacMutrie is the Artistic                                                                                                          Oksana Chepelyk, a Design|Media Arts
Director of Amorphic Robot Works                                                                                                         Fulbright visiting artist, presented
(ARW), a collective he founded in 1991                                                                                                   Genesis—a multi-part video and
consisting of artists and engineers who                                                                                                  photography installation that examines
help in the realization of his work.                                                                                                     the genetic currency of the nation. A
Amorphic Robot Works is a collaborative                                                                                                  real-time data stream monitoring newborn
group of artists, technicians, and                                                                                                       births creates an infant data base,
programmers who create multi-faceted                                                                                                     triggering visual changes on projected
machine sculptures that interact in                                                                                                      images of children around the world.
their uniquely designed environments.                                                                                                    Each act of childbirth adds up to the
The work involves a kinesthetic inquiry                                                                                                  collective image of a newborn baby.
into the human condition, which has
resulted in the creation of more than                                                                                                    As an artist, Oksana explores the
250 mechanical sculptures that assume                                                                                                    interrelation of the real, social and
anthropomorphic and abstract forms.                                                                                                      virtual spaces regarding to social
                                                                                                                                         and esthetical global projects. She
                                                                                                                                         is interested in esthetical artistic
                                                                                                                                         position open to the co-experience of
                                                                                                                                         complexity of the world, focusing on
                                                                                                                                         cultural transformations. This process
                                                                                                                                         is closely connected with massive
                                                                                                                                         effects on human interaction and
                                                                                                                                         communication.

ARTIST ART+ACTIVISM COLLABORATION COMMUNITY EDUCATION LECTURE PUBLICATION RESEARCH RESIDENCY ROBOTICS MIXER SYMPOSIUM ||||       ARTIST ART+ACTIVISM COLLABORATION COMMUNITY EDUCATION LECTURE PUBLICATION RESEARCH RESIDENCY ROBOTICS MIXER SYMPOSIUM ||||
     || SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER ||||| 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ||||| UCLA CNSI DMA BEYOND |||||  ||||| SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER ||||| 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 ||||| UCLA CNSI DMA BEYOND ||
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