Pony: a disturbing kinetic sculpture

pony H 54" L 49" W 27" is a kinetic sculpture that is reminiscent of one of Paolo Bacigalupi's more disturbing stories, somehow sexual and biomorphic at once. Do you know who made it and where it was exhibited? Please leave a comment.

pony H 54" L 49" W 27" (via JWZ)

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peterblue11

kinetica artfair…i think 2009 . edit:

http://1.2.3.13/bmi/jocheung.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/kinetica.jpg
- peterblue11
  
  oh sorry..pony is by tim lewis!
http://twitter.com/MartianEmpress Rezeya Montecore

Coming this fall:

MUMMENSCHANZ VS. PREDATOR
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=20610442 Maggie Laigaie

Tim Lewis
- Lotney
  
  http://www.kinetica-artfair.com/?exhibitors/2009/tim-lewis
Marius van Voorden

With the help of peterblue11′s comment:
Tim Lewis. For example: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/9510/1/tim-lewis-at-kinetica-art-fair
neurolux

I fink it’s freeky and I like it a lot.

The dwarf from the Island of Dr. Moreau should be riding this thing.
Antinous / Moderator

Why didn’t they use Turkey in the Straw as a soundtrack?
Autonymous Media Daemon

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- SoItBegins
  
  How do you do that ‘wrecked-text’ look?
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http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

Seems like the kind of thing Bunuel would have loved to escort Beauty through the garden
- BDiamond
  
  Perhaps you mean Jean Cocteau?
Alex Dodge

These aren’t the ponies you’re looking for.
millie fink

Very cool. But, sexual? I’m not seeing that, at all. . .
- oasisob1
  
  Takes all kinds. And Cory is one of those kinds, apparently.
  - soybeans
    
    We have all kinds. Doesn’t mean it takes all kinds.
- http://celesteagnes.blogspot.com/ Sekino
  
  Yeah, I don’t get ‘disturbing’ or ‘sexual’. I just get ‘ostrich’. I feel so wholesome ;)
Bokonon

I hope the Mumenschanz vs Predator thing is real
http://www.millsworks.net/blog Robbo

Love the puppet hand head. That’s how we mess about when rehearsing – call it “Binky, the wonder puppet”. Awesome looking thing Lewis has made – want to see more now.
http://www.geekforce.com Hugh Johnson

Gah!

That’s disturbing.
Donald Petersen

Disturbing? Naw, looks perfectly natural, if shy and tentative. Now, were it overclocked to the point of moving with confidence and elan, or even aggression, I might feel a tad uneasy.

I’d pay several hundreds of dollars to have a moving model of this of my very own. I know it’s worth much more, but I am a poor art-lover from the trailer park. Of course, if this thing will accept a 2″ ball receiver hitch, all my prayers will be answered.
- noah django
  
  exactly! what kind of horsepower are we talking about, here?
- http://shadowfirebird.tumblr.com shadowfirebird
  
  I think it’s disturbing *because* it looks natural. A new sort of uncanny valley.
blueelm

I love this thing. I don’t know why, but I think it’s beautiful!
http://twitter.com/mootpointblank Greg Hayes

Wow, yeah … I’ve gotta say, even I didn’t see it as sexual (and lord how I try). Beautiful, however, in ways beyond humancentric description.
- Fnordius
  
  Just immerse yourself in “pony play” for a while. After a while you can see where those vibes can come from.
  
  Disclaimer: no, I don’t endorse or even engage in it. I’m just saying that what was seen cannot be unseen.
willyboy

Japanese horror films freak me out.
chgoliz

Those 3 animatronic arms/hands are rather sophisticated in their movements: the cost of materials must have been astronomical.

Arduino?
Bahumat

NOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPENOPE. Invent a machine that can burn things that have already been burned. Then burn that thing, then burn the ashes in the machine, and then burn the machine.

That thing is creepy as hell.
- Donald Petersen
  
  Picture it waiting at your bedside, to gently awaken you just before dawn with a tentative taptap. Or a caress…
dAN f

I saw this a few years ago in a gallery show of kinetic art in Shoreditch, London. I was with my daughter who was about 4 at the time.

She literally couldn’t bear to look at it, even from a distance – I’m going to show her the video and see if she’ll remember!