Most readers will be familiar with the work of the Dutch artist Theo Jansen, whose Strandbeest wind-powered mechanical walking sculptures prowl the beaches of the Netherlands. The Jansen linkage ...

How many artificial animals can you encounter on a seaside walk? More than one if you frequent the Dutch coastline where Theo Jansen's moving artworks amble along with the help of their rudimentary ...

Theo Jansen's "Strandbeest" sculptures are more like a species of artificial animals than a work of art. Their movements are incredibly life-like. Meaning "beach animals" in Dutch, Jansen's creations ...

Theo Jansen gathered with a small group of people last week to bring Animaris Suspendisse back from the dead. All 43 feet of it was standing in the exhibition hall of Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, ...

Theo Jansen has been creating wind-walking examples of artificial life since 1990. What was at first a rudimentary breed has slowly evolved into a generation of machines that are able to react to ...

Jansen’s Strandbeests are wondrous wind-powered automatons that exhibit almost life-like qualities and are capable of moving around on their own. Most are built from piping, wood and sail cloth and ...

An curved arrow pointing right. What you want to know: The scoop: Theo Jansen's Strandbeest project is like nothing else in the world. They're sculptures that move with the wind — or with human ...

Dutch artist Theo Jansen showed off his Strandbeest mechanical creatures on the sand in front of the W Hotel Friday for an event with Audemars Piguet and the Peabody Essex Museum. Jansen, who began ...

[Theo Jansen] has come up with a n intriguing wind-powered strandbeest which races along the beach with surprising speed and grace. According to [Jansen], it “doesn’t have hinging joints like the ...

Massive mechanical creatures meander down sandy beaches seemingly of their own accord, their bodies made of nothing but complex arrangements of PVC pipes. These beasts don’t display any robotic parts, ...

Theo Jansen in front of one of his Strandbeests, Animaris Umerus (2009), on Scheveningen Beach, the Netherlands, in 2009 Credit: Loek van der Klis/Courtesy Theo Jansen On an empty stretch of beach ...

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