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ExhibitionsExhibitionsGoing Green – New Environmental Art from Taiwan Elemental Energy: Art Powered by Nature Joe Chirchirillo Elemental Energy: Art Powered by Nature is The Schuylkill Center's 2010 On The Trails exhibition. Six artists or artist teams from around the country will present outdoor sculptural installations that engage a natural element - wind, water, sun - to create a dynamic or kinetic artwork. Each piece creates sound, movement, or both, using only the energy they harness from nature. These exciting works will be installed for visitors to The Schuylkill Center to discover along Widener, Woodcock, and Grey Fox Loop trails.
On May 12, 2010, Elemental Energy artists Jason Krugman and Christian Cerrito taught a Solar Bugbot Workshop. Held at Art in the Age in Old City Philadelphia, participants learned how to construct a circuit that gathers solar energy and releases it in bursts, and then use it in the creation of a small, light-powered, vibro-bot. These Bugbots respond directly to the intensity of the light that they are exposed to, using solar energy to power two vibrating pager motors. On a sunny day they skitter about frantically...On cloudy days they move intermittently as they build up energy.
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