"Requiring just two nails and a power plug, the device can be installed in less than five minutes. It then uses inbuilt engines to move, draw, erase and re-draw new content a limitless amount of times"
Full article here: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/04/04/carlo-ratti-scribit-writing-robot-turns-walls-into-digital-canvases-milan-design-week/
Original project located here: https://carlorattiassociati.com/project/scribit/
Pindar Van Arman is an artist who creates robots that can paint using artificial intelligence. Unlike Patrick Tresset, whose robots closely observe people and draw them like human artists, Van Arman’s robots are designed to make their own creative decisions. His system, known as CloudPainter, analyzes images by breaking them down into shapes, colors, and brushstrokes, then recreates them through layered painting. What makes his work unique is that the robot is not simply copying—it is interpreting and sometimes even evaluating its own work. Through this process, Van Arman explores the idea of whether machines can truly be creative and what it means for a robot to act as an artist rather than just a tool.
You’re probably thinking of Patrick Tresset, a London-based artist known for his project where robots draw people.
It’s called Paul the Robot.
Patrick builds robotic arms that act like artists. They:
This project connects:
Sougwen Chung is an artist who creates drawing machines that work together with her. Instead of drawing alone, she uses robots and technology to collaborate with movement and lines.
Her machines follow patterns, repeat gestures, and sometimes respond to her actions, creating artworks that feel alive, layered, and dynamic. The drawings are not just about the final image, but about the process of interaction between human and machine.
In this project, we will take inspiration from her work to explore how patterns, movement, and repetition can help us create our own designs and ideas.
Combining Pen Plotter Technology with Silk Painting
Antonia Gauss (and here) and Eva Benhamou developed the industrial part using a pen plotter system and dye brushes adapted to textile processes. The fabric component, meanwhile, is inspired by researching the dyeing technique of silk painting and mixing it with acid dye. Process-wise, the duo begins by placing a white silk fabric in the machine and rolling it up; the material is thus stretched and painted in a wet state frame by frame (the width of the format is 40 cm), making it possible to print in infinite length.
Learn more here: https://www.designboom.com/design/antonia-gauss-eva-benhamou-develop-textile-dyeing-system-using-pen-plotter-08-07-2023/
"New York-based artist Jonathan Schipper’s ‘Detritus’ is an infinitely dynamic environment composed of salt, digital machinery, and hot water bathing. The immersive installation is made up of twelve tons of salt stretching from end to end of the gallery floor, while a metallic mechanism suspended from the ceiling by cables ascends and descends onto the mineral plane. By varying the length of the four tethers, the device moves around the room, lowering itself onto the surface where it extrudes and builds three-dimensional, abstracted salt forms from layers upon layers of the material. The resulting mass arrangement revealed from the heaps of fine grains simulate architectural landscapes, and city skylines — representations of man-made objects. As part of the exhibition, viewers have the option of observing the salt sculptures’ fabrication from the comfort of a hot tub nearby, forcing an inevitable destruction of the builds as they enter and exit the pool of water."
Learn more here: https://www.designboom.com/art/detritus-builds-salt-sculptures-as-visitors-watch-from-a-hot-tub-10-21-2013/
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