Eight Drunken Immortals

Eight Drunken Immortals is a work by Chinese contempory artist Shyu Ruey-Shiann. This work is currently in the White Rabbit art gallery so it is worth checking out. Eight four-legged robots with wheels for feet and reservoirs of ink on their backs career across a large sheet of paper, scribbling as they go. Their drawings aren’t much to look at, just smeared, roughly circular patches on the floor. This idea could be explored by creating an interactive aspect in which the robots on the floor mimic and move in the way the viewer is moving creating lines in the floor.
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