Curious Contraptions | Matt Smith | Exploratorium

Meet Matt Smith, one of the automata artists whose work is showcased at the Exploratorium's Curious Contraptions exhibition.
This special exhibition features more than 20 charming and often hilarious mechanical sculptures known as automata. Their whimsical characters are brought to life by intricate arrangements of cams, cranks, and other simple mechanisms.
Each sculpture performs an absurd miniature drama that often reflects its maker’s dark and very British sense of humor. Exposed inner workings encourage visitors to investigate the low-tech mechanisms used to make these automata move. Additional exhibits offer a closer look at the most common simple mechanisms.
The exhibition also features sketches from the notebooks of leading automata artist Paul Spooner, as well as photographs of his delightfully cluttered workshop.
www.exploratorium.edu/curious...

[@gggiraffe]

What poetry & ingenuity! Fantastic!

[@greatkingrat]

Amazing and brilliant….I fear that this sort of thing will soon cease to be which would be very sad.

[@darkallegiance666]

Wonderful! 😊

[@supersonico9364]

This is so nice! 👍

[@TheNervousnation]

Beautiful

[@ghanshyamvaghela5812]

Excellent

[@studiosandi]

So cool!

[@raymondo162]

"you need geometry".................... and a massive workshop full of machine tools. i'd give my right arm to have a lathe and plenty of space for it etc etc

[@chompers11]

Right!!

[@72Alexf]

Fantastic!!! Do you also sell by mail?
Fanton Alessandro

[@exploratorium]

Matt Smith has a website for more information on ordering opportunities @ www.fourteenballstoy.co.uk/