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Robert Furness
Born 1991
Lives and works in Cambridge, UK
www.robertfurness.com
Robert Furness takes a contemporary approach to drawing and
installation. His interactive environments alter the sensory perception
of the viewer and draw attention to the physicality of space and the
interaction of technology, through the use of machinery such as vibration
motors. The work aims to create sensations in the viewer’s body, that
cannot be fully-translated or described through language.

Robert’s installations are designed to demonstrate that a drawing
machine cannot function without organic interaction. The machine is a
reactive image-maker, where indirect contact between the body and
the mechanism creates the image. The adjacent image demonstrates
this indirect contact, through sense-activated, autonomous drawing.
The work displayed here is a sensory drawing machine that reacts to the
presence of an audience, jumping into life to create a drawing from the
interaction it has had. The work was completed on April 24th 2014.

ROBERT FURNESS graduated in BA Fine Art in 2014 and has exhibited in a handful of
shows including; Siege - Cambridge School of Art: Degree Show (2014), 12 Million
Miles Per Second, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge, UK (2013) and Simpatico,
Changing Spaces: King Street, Cambridge, UK (2013).

drawer aud; //random
drawer sen.machine1;
drawer charcoal_1;
void setup(); {
size(122, 122);
}
void draw() {
background(bPk);
aud.display();
sen.machine1.display();
sen.machine1.draw();
} //cut
void drawer() {
stroke(0) = sen.machine1 + charcoal_1;
if (aud.display() + void) {
sen.machine1 + charcoal_1 = sen.machine1.draw(random); }
else { sen.machine1 + charcoal_1 = 0;
}
2014, wood, paper, sensor, charcoal, motor.
h: 70cm w: 122cm d: 122cm, Artist’s Collection.

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