Margot's Cat - Arthur Ganson

This machine was inspired by watching a randomly shaped object bouncing off the surface of a slow moving, reciprocating and irregularly shaped piston head on the moon. Of course anything is possible in the virtual world of the computer.

The doll house chair seems to be the perfect object to bounce nearly weightlessly over the unsuspecting cat. In this machine, the chair is passive and all motion is due to interference by the cat. The large disk at the back serves to both counterbalance the arm and give more mass to the chair itself. The motion of the chair is complex and will never repeat.

Margot Clark was my wonderful and inspiring art history teacher at the University of New Hampshire. When she passed away she left a houseful of cats.

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Entertainment

Tags:

• art
• sculpture
• kinetic
• machine

[moondog999]

if you were condemned to spend eternity as the chair or the cat, what would you choose?

[lvachon]

I love how this machine purrs.

[hatfez]

@moondog999 Whatever I choose, I want to have a hit of acid first...

[Shigg1es]

All of these machines are incredibly dumb. But this one was interesting, but still, pointless.

[fiveMIRrOrs]

@moondog999 The chair. The cat has predictable stable pattern, but the chair bounces in pretty surprizing ways and has constant interaction with the carpet AND the cat. It's pretty much like having an eternal adventure.

[GutShot111]

i could watch this all day long

and that's what i'll do

[sparkster7744]

What's wrong with that cat? ._.

[medfordhistorical]

Arthur - Having studied under Margot and then becoming her friend, I can say with certainty that her eyes would light up and she would clasp her hands in front of her if she were to see this. What a great, great tribute to her. Thank you.

[JWinn7]

Goddamn that's beautiful. Can I buy one?

[beardydave]

@moondog999 the chair

[turgore]

I gotta watch this when I'm high.

[TrueCourse]

One really annoyed kitteh! :)