Dancing Robots

In this NuVu Storytelling and Design studio, we will create a story, and then tell it using robots (or a robot) that we design and build. The story may be the same every time, or it may change…it’s all up to us. Our story is important, so we will create the robots to be powered by renewable energy. We can’t rely on there being electrical outlets forever.

This studio will involve basics of energy & power, robotics, programming and mechanical construction. Since most people haven’t had a lot of experience building robots and other mechanical things, this studio will introduce a number of materials and methods that are readily available (think Hardware Store) and non-frustrating to work with. Esoteric tools are not needed to create. Participants will leave this studio with knowledge they can use at home to create physical robots to tell their own stories.

Sean Stevens

Alternative Energy Artist, Scientist

Since Sean was six years old, he has always taken things apart to see how they worked. This innate curiosity about how things work lead him to explore computer programming, human perception, robotics, alternative energy, Sound, lighting, LASERs, Interactivity, the internet, and how it can all tie into community. He discovered that most complex systems can be considered to be made of modules. With the right input and output, these modules can be made to act independently.
Recombined in new ways, the modules can create new and interesting things. Working with systems in this way allows us to create faster, since we don’t necessarily have to understand the modules on every level to use them. Sean is currently working on lowRes, a primarily human powered, large scale, mobile, modular, interactive art piece. With lowRes, Sean hopes to create something that is enjoyable, but when you think about it really makes a statement.

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