Lawrence Weschler is Director Emeritus of the New York Institute
for the Humanities at NYU. A former staff writer at The New Yorker,
he is the author of over 15 books, including the Pulitzer-nominated
Mr Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder and Everything That Rises: A Book of
Convergences, winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award
for Criticism. He is a contributing editor at Threepenny Review,
The Virginia Quarterly Review, and McSweeney's.
Dutch visual artist Theo Jansen studied science at the University
of Delft. He spent his early career painting, before deciding to
strike out on a new course by making a real flying saucer which
flew over Delft in 1980. Since then he has been working on the
creation of the Strandbeest species. Jansen’s work has been
featured in several television programs, as well as in The New
Yorker, New Scientist, and Wired.
Lena Herzog is a multi-disciplinary artist. She studied Philosophy
and Linguistics (Philology), began working primarily in the field
of photography and print making since 1997. Herzog is the author of
six books of photography; her work has been widely published and
reviewed by The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New
Yorker, The Paris Review among many others. She is a regular
contributing artist to Harper’s Magazine. Her work has been
collected and exhibited in major museums and institutions around
the world.
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They really do appear to be alive. Purposeful, resolute. They don't
fall into the uncanny valley that afflicts so many other robotic
assaults on the absolutely lifelike... they almost seem to evince a
soul.
*The New York Times Magazine*
Spectacular, mechanical, philosophical beauty all rolled up in the
talents of a man who is both artist and artisan in the broader
sense of both words.
*Forbes*
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