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Maker Faire Bay Area 2008
Twenty Seven Gears
| Location: Expo Green |
Benjamin Cowden makes interactive mechanical sculptures that explore the ways people interact with each other and with the world around them. Meticulously fabricated movements contrast with apparently trivial processes to offer users a playful experience as well as an invitation to re-examine their activities and perceptions.
Web site: http://www.twentysevengears.com
Topic(s): Arts
Tags: kinetic mechanical sculpture interactive mechanism movement gears people senses perceptions experien
About the Maker(s)
Benjamin Cowden
Benjamin Cowden began working with metal during an undergraduate anthropology project in Cameroon in 1997, where he studied how Baka Pygmies turned worn machetes into utility knives. An Artist-in-Residence at the Appalachian Center for Crafts in Tennessee from 2001 to 2003, Benjamin focused on utilitarian forged ironwork.
He entered the Master of Fine Arts in Metals program at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2004. Making work that viewers can touch and use has always been central to Cowden’s work, and throughout his graduate studies he focused on interactive mechanical devices which addressed human experience. He now lives in Oakland, California, where he continues to explore these themes.
www.twentysevengears.com
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