Among other curious work at the Art Shanty opening last week was robotic ice carver by Jesse Hemminger & Bruce Shapiro. A PC sends horizontal and vertical directions to the carver much like it would direct a pen plotting printer, but this printer doesn’t have ink, it has a two cycle weed eater motor spinning a router bit. The result is a series of computationally drawn holes in the ice.
The Art Shanties are on view on Medicine Lake , and there is a full schedule of programming in defiance of the unseasonable warm streak of that’s flustering most of us here in Minnesota.
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