Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Machines of Men

 Iterative and Regular

Power On

A new seasonal coat-of-arms for Corktown Studios, at the intersection of 14th and Jerry.

The Arkestral Procession (AKA: The Sidewalk Ballet) // Activation

Jake Chidester and Alisyn Malek of Corktown Studios presents The Sidewalk Ballet AKA The Arkestral Procession, a novel series of mechanical archways that amplify a visitor’s movements into light and sound.

Installed at Dlectricity 2021, College for Creative Studies, Ford Sculpture Garden

The Arkestral Procession (AKA: The Sidewalk Ballet) // Progress

Progress shots of the Arkestral Procession, under construction, at Corktown Studios, from prototype to load-out

The Arkestral Procession (AKA: The Sidewalk Ballet) // Concepts

Building upon the canon of work established and evolved over the last decade, The Arkestral Procession is both in the familiar wheelhouse of our past successes, and wholly original in scale, scope of equitable interactively, and form.

An interactive visual and aural composition authored by the willing and unknowing alike, The Arkestral Procession presents a novel mechanism for the amplification of the an individual’s passive contribution to the Great Collective Sidewalk Ballet into light and sound.

Everyone may be an instrument of the creative dialogue of the city sidewalk.

Ja! Tiny! Interior!

 

JA! Tiny! Exterior!

 

JA! Tiny! Progress!

 Progress Montage from the Ja! Farms Tiny House Project.

Twenty-Nine Ghosts

 Dug up, cut apart, and reformed into this Chimera.

Rejected MDOT Infrastructure Proposals (CMYK Redux)

Pre- Pandy Shannanys in the form of Mechanical Attachment Tryptics.

Context

Infrastructure Proposals and the Machines of Men, in context.

Post Urban Typologies

Idealized, Layered, and Repeated

 

The First, Second, and Third Machines of Men (Installed)

This digital collage series explores methods of production both within the subject matter and through the confines of the medi(a) itself, within a framework of didactic symmetry, craftsmanship, urban scale, and absurdity.
Mechanically impossible but potentially probable, these early prototypes demonstrate the folly of Men.

The First, Second, and Third Machines of Men

This digital collage series explores methods of production both within the subject matter and through the confines of the medi(a) itself, within a framework of didactic symmetry, craftsmanship, urban scale, and absurdity.

Mechanically impossible but potentially probable, these early prototypes demonstrate the folly of Men.

Rejected MDOT Infrastructure Proposals [Digital]

This digital collage series explores methods of production both within the subject matter and through the confines of the medi(a) itself, within a framework of didactic symmetry, craftsmanship, urban scale, and absurdity.

Rejected MDOT Infrastructure Proposals #3215, #4255, and #4565 demonstrate an almost absurd dedication to symmetry, compressive scales, and a cubist sensibility.