Please note that this page relates to the event which took place in 2003-04.
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Come and have fun!
Art, Mechanics and Technology
will collide
at Cabaret Mechanical Festival 2003
a 23 day event on London's Southbank

17 December '03 - 11 January '04
Open Daily 11am to 6 pm
(closed 25th, 26th December, 1st January)
BBC Radio Four feature
the festival on Woman's Hour

Please note that this page relates to the event which took place in 2003-04.
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Automata Exhibition – FREE

Press the buttons and turn the handles!

Come and see some of your old favorites as well as stunning new works from Jim Bond, MIT's artist in residence Arthur Ganson, John Lumbus, Peter Markey, Portugese artist - Virgínio Moutinho, Keith Newstead, Russian artist Eduard Bersudsky's Sharmanka KineticTheatre, Martin Smith, Matt Smith, Paul Spooner, Nikki Taylor, Carlos Zapata and others.

Many of the works are one-off pieces and will be for sale.
Cabaret Mechanical Festival 2003
a 23 day event on London's Southbank

the.gallery@oxo

17 December - 11 January
Open Daily 11am to 6 pm
(closed 25th, 26th December, 1st January)

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the.gallery@oxo
Oxo Tower Wharf
Bargehouse Street
South Bank
London SE1 9PH

Tim Hunkin Talks – FREE

Engineer and Cartoonist Tim Hunkin will entertain us with two talks during the Festival. Many of Tim's coin-operated machines, including the Chiropodist, the Rabid Dog and the Frisker were originally seen at CMT during the Covent Garden era. Tim now has a whole amusement arcade of his coin-operated machines on Southwold Pier in Suffolk.

Why I abandoned Fine Art
Thursday 18th December 1pm

Tim Hunkin’s personal journey around the Art world.


Hi Tech - Lo Tech
Thursday 8th January 1pm

Tim Hunkin’s recipes for making the unusual from the usual.

LINKS
Tim Hunkin on CMT - Tim's own web site.
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Paul Spooner Talk – FREE

'A Day at the Butchers'
Thursday 18th December 4 pm

As Paul Spooner prepares for his solo exhibition next year, he treats us to the inner workings of his mind and a drawer full of salami.

Kinetic Art Film Festival – FREE


Sunday 21st December 4pm

Presented by Liz Keim of the Exploratorium, San Francisco

For more than 100 years, artists and scientists have been using the kinetic framework of moving pictures to capture moments in time. Through stop-motion animation, documentary portraiture, and other experimental techniques, filmmakers create short visual narratives that transform commonplace situations into humorous dioramas. From Ladislas Starewicz's 1912 "Revenge of a Kinematograph Cameraman" to Virgil Widrich's 2003 "Fast Film", come and see the many dynamic and unusual ways in which filmmakers explore and interpret human drama.

Shop

Our shop will be open throughout the Festival. You will find plenty of exciting last minute Christmas presents, kits to build yourself, one-off pieces of automata, as well as educational resources.
  • Mechanical Kits
  • Books and Videos
  • CD-ROMs and Posters
  • Hand-Made Automata
Many items at special Festival prices
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Hands-on Area – FREE

Come and try your hand at designing and making automata, (out of anything!)

Please note: due to scheduled workshops (see below) this area may not always be operating.

Workshops

We have a programme of workshops throughout the Festival. Come and make Sound Automata with staff from the San Francisco Exploratorium. Design your own automata or try making automata out of food!
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