The special exhibition Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen was at the Exploratorium May 27–September 5, 2016.This exhibition featured enormous kinetic sculptures called strandbeests—“beach animals” in Dutch—that mesmerized with their eerily lifelike motion. Theo Jansen is an artist from Netherlands. Dutch sculptor, Theo Jansen, has spent the last 28 years designing and building a series of wind-powered creatures called Strandbeests or ‘beach animals’. Further reading. - Theo Jansen. Over time he was able to make structures more resistible to wind and water. Theo Jansen is not just in the business of making sculptures. When the blue line at the right end of the picture is driven in a clockwise rotary motion, the leg (blue triangle at the bottom) executes a walking motion.

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His "Strandbeests" walk the coastline of Holland, feeding on wind and fleeing from water. Relative (dimensionless) proportions shown. His "Strandbeests" walk the coastline of Holland, feeding on wind and fleeing from water. since the beginning we have followed the engineering genius of theo jansen‘s world-famous strandbeests – large-scale kinetic sculptures that use the power of wind … Skeletal 'beests' walk the shoreline Jump to media player Theo Jansen creates "strandbeests", sculptures that move using the power of the wind. By using yellow plastic tubes, the artist attempts to create new forms of life. Theo Jansen's linkage. Self-propelling beach animals. by Maria Sofou Dutch artist Theo Jansen creates stunning wind-powered, walking sculptures that are just amazing to watch!

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who builds walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life. Since 1990 artist and sculptor Theo Jansen has created moving sculptures on the beaches of Netherlands.

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who builds walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life.

Nai010 Publishers (2013) Buy from Amazon. From plastic yellow tubes, Jansen creates sculptures moved by wind which remind me pre-historical animals, on an expression of kinetic art. Theo Jansen 's kinetic sculpture Strandbeest. The Great Pretender.

He creates sculptures, or skeletons, as he calls them, that walk on wind! Polymath Theo Jansen has spent 27 years merging art and science to create his self-powered strandbeest sculptures - and luxury watchmaker Audemars Piguet is now on board. The Dutch artist’s Strandbeests will be appearing on Miami Beach this week as part of Art …

At the beaches of Netherlands, the artist-engineer Theo Jansen chose a different path of those followed by who uses wind to give shape to mills or hot-air balloons. A wind-driven walking machine.

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Jansen’s extraordinary creations, which he describes as “a new form of life”, are a true embodiment of art, science, engineering and performance. The artist uses plastic yellow tubes to build his “skeletons” – after that, the sculptures are able to walk on their own with a little help from the wind and seem like living creatures!