Olof Broström (SE)
Olof Broström possesses a desire to capture and encapsulate time, to be able to freeze parts of an eternal axis of time and make use of the information therein for something else. By documenting natural processes with time-lapse photography, he has tried to show the readability of the movement of clouds, the degradability of spaghetti, or the instant of the appearance of the northern lights of Norrland.
He also creates automatic drawing machines, small robots that he employs in order to draw sketches of analog phenomena. The autonomous drawing machines are all built by hand with an assiduousness that testifies to a great familiarity with crafts. Often, Broström uses already existing constructions, for example cleaning robots or radio-controlled toy cars, as the building blocks for a robot. Then he gives them the characteristics they need in order to be able do a sketch, by connecting various pens and nibs to their bodies. They are refined at every round that Broström goes with them, the studio is filled to the brim with small gadgets, motors, nuts, and tools.
Text by Erik Berg
Links:
http://www.oolf.net/
http://vimeo.com/1772466
http://www.myspace.com/theicehorse
