{"id":7506,"date":"2023-01-24T19:18:26","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/?p=7506"},"modified":"2023-01-24T19:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T00:20:33","slug":"precedent-research-theo-jansens-strandbeests-bridget-doherty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/7506\/precedent-research-theo-jansens-strandbeests-bridget-doherty\/","title":{"rendered":"Precedent Research &#8211; Theo Jansen&#8217;s Strandbeests | Bridget Doherty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who, since 1990, has been creating large-scale kinetic sculptures out of mostly PVC pipe that are able to move on their own. His creatures, which he calls &#8216;Strandbeests,&#8217; primarily are set out on beaches in the Netherlands, where they are powered by the wind. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"471\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strandbeests-jansen-2021-video-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strandbeests-jansen-2021-video-02.jpg 900w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strandbeests-jansen-2021-video-02-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strandbeests-jansen-2021-video-02-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/strandbeests-jansen-2021-video-02-508x266.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>His more recent work involves a rudimentary form of artificial intelligence, with pneumatic logic circuits able to direct the animal in another direction if water is detected, for instance. A feature of the work that could be incorporated into the work we do in class is the use of fabric as an input: sails on the sculptures collect wind to use as power for the movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-973x649.jpg 973w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage-508x339.jpg 508w, https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/rawImage.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The intelligence and biomimicry of Jansen&#8217;s work is not immediately apparent, although you can certainly get a sense of life and thought from videos of the sculptures moving. He views his work as an ecology of species, and iterates on previous designs as a form of evolution. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"STRANDBEEST EVOLUTION 2021\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C97kMKwZ2-g?start=210&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who, since 1990, has been creating large-scale kinetic sculptures out of mostly PVC pipe that are able to move on their own&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7506"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7510,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7506\/revisions\/7510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.ideate.cmu.edu\/16-376\/s2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}