New video: Douglas Repetto on Creative Innovation and Tinkering

A flashback to Lift France 09, and Douglas Repetto's talk about creative innovation and tinkering.

Douglas Repetto "Changing Innovation" (Lift09 France EN)
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As you may remember Douglas is the founder of Dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity. He is also an artist producing sculptures, installations, performances, recordings, and software. We caught up with him this week, and he gave us an update on his recent activities!

In December, he presented "Walking Tables and Wrestling Foals": A Hands-on Workshop and Musical Performance" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City as part of the exhibition "Bauhaus 1919-1933: Workshops for Modernity." In the workshop a large group of volunteers fabricated and assembled thirty three simple mechanical walking tables, aka "foals." That evening the foals were arranged in a circle and set free to wander around in a MoMA lobby, where they broke down, fell over, embraced, and occasionally triumphed. Contemporary music ensemble WetInk improvised a score based on the tragicomic movement of the foals. Have a look at this video to get a feel for the event.