{"id":41873,"date":"2013-10-19T02:29:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T02:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T23:00:07","slug":"playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-41873 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets\/attachment\/41874\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_muio3kkMvF1rjatglo2_r1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets\/attachment\/41875\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_muio3kkMvF1rjatglo1_r1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets\/attachment\/41876\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_muio3kkMvF1rjatglo3_r1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/playfulsystems-ucresearch-when-art-meets\/attachment\/41877\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_muio3kkMvF1rjatglo4_r1_500-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/playfulsystems.tumblr.com\/post\/64408541877\/ucresearch-when-art-meets-engineering-the-gifs\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">playfulsystems<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/ucresearch.tumblr.com\/post\/64213489589\/when-art-meets-engineering-the-gifs-above\">ucresearch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3><strong>When art meets engineering<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The GIFs above show\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=llacDdn5yIE\"><strong><em>Metropolis II<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a kinetic sculpture of the modern bustling city. \u00a0The project \u2014 by artist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chris_Burden\">Chris Burden<\/a> \u2014 took nearly four years to create and features 1,100 cars zipping around 18 roadways, including one six-laner. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/1664409\/how-chris-burden-created-metropolis-ii-a-tiny-city-where-1100-toy-cars-zoom\">The noise and level of activity are both mesmerizing and anxiety provoking<\/a>,\u201d he explains. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Burden has created a number of large-scale installations that walk the line between engineering and sculpture:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As an art-school graduate student at the University of California, Irvine, his friends were physics students who played around in the lab the way he experimented and daydreamed in his studio. \u201cThey\u2019d say, \u2018We follow our hunches, we freeze things to 300 degrees below zero and then we hit them with hammers,\u2019 \u201d he recalled. \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702303442004579123603257897982.html\">I thought, \u2018Wow, that\u2019s kind of what I do.<\/a>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>His retrospective show, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/view\/chris-burden-extreme-measures\"><em>Extreme Measures<\/em> at\u00a0The New Museum<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0is showing through January 12th, 2014.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>FWIW, I make a trip to see <em>Metropolis II\u00a0<\/em>every time I visit Los Angeles. Between Chris Burden at the New Museum and Chris Wool coming to the Guggenheim it\u2019s like NEW YORK CITY FINALLY GOT SOME CULTURE. 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