echo yang programs everyday obsolete machines to create autonomous art

echo yang programs everyday obsolete machines to create autonomous art
all images courtesy of echo yang

for ‘autonomous machines’, designer echo yang asks ‘what could happen…in a world in which obsolete machines like hand-powered alarm clocks, walkmans and mechanical toys take center stage?’ in an experiment with old technologies and new, yang has taken a series of various everyday items and hooked them up to mechanisms, which allow them to create artworks on their own. attaching a paint-soaked q-tip to the edge of a chicken tin toy — which spins in an infinite circular pattern — generates a repetitive, vibrantly colored dotted illustration; a pen secured to the edge of a spinning walkman’s wheels draws a concentric design; paint applied to vacuum cleaner brushes brings about an abstract formation. 

art created by the chicken tin toy

the walkman at work

output drawing from the walkman

wind up clock

drawing done by the wind up clock

using the electric shaver

art made my electric shaver

hand mixer creating art

hand mixer output

vacuum cleaner

vacuum cleaner art