Mondo Spider at CODE Live - Vancouver 2010 Olympics

Demonstration of the Mondo Spider, an art installation by eatART at CODE Live, part of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics.

"Humans and technologies are being joined in ways that a short time ago seemed like only science fiction fantasies. Mondo Spider is inspired by a combination of the kinetic structures found in popular cultural forms as well as the surreal mechanical imaginations found at the Burning Man Festival in Black Rock, Nevada. Using two hydraulic levers, this giant machine needs hundreds of different and specifically engineered pieces to work in perfect precision to operate each step. In this iteration Mondo Spider has been specially converted to leave no carbon emissions. Electro-luminescent wire lights it up at night, and this body with its spider-like movements lives somewhere between the natural and the artificial, between spiders and technology, in a zone where science and fiction have merged."

eatArt website: http://www.eatart.org/

CODE Live website: http://www.vancouver2010.com/more-2010-information/cultural-festivals-and-eve...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• code
• vancouver
• 2010
• olympics
• eatart

[leigh8959]

@moonsyne it won't work. It requires slip in order to function.

[moonsyne]

That thing needs some rubber shoes.