Day 39 – Deck the halls with Automata!

As you make the final touches to your decorations, why not think about creating some that move.

Dr. Stephen Guy has been busy this year with several collaborative automata projects, which may inspire you to get creative with your friends.

Last month Stephen inspired prospective theatre design students with this wonderful idea for a workshop. Students all made their own pieces, and then by clever mechanical connections, all the automata were joined together and one turn of the handle set them all in motion.

Stephen’s mechanical theatre performance of The London Jungle Book, featuring Indian Gond Art by Bhaju Shyam, was so popular at our exhibition in Granada that they have been invited back to do a closing performance in January.

Following on from this work, Stephen also inspired another Gond artist to make his first piece of automata.