Jan Bernstein

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Plotter N°1

[2012] drawing machine [...]



Clock

[2011] under construction [...]



Supermarket

[2011] Ein Einkaufswagen, ein Diaprojektor, eine Autobatterie, eine Geldkassette und eine Zeitschaltuhr. Eine Einminutenprojektion für 50 Cent. [...]



Pursue

[2011] Eine Fellmütze die sich immer den hellsten Ort sucht. So folgt sie der beweglichen Schreibtischleuchte und plaziert sich fortwährend unter ihr.[...]



Nemore

[2010] Woeishi Lean // Sebastian Neitsch // Max Kickinger and me recently formed the collective "fishing for compliments". Our first Project "Nemore" is a garden, consiting of 36 bendable graphite poles. "Nemore" senses the visitor. Each pole has a behavior and reacts to it's neighbours only: and to the visitor. [...]



Ongoing

[2010] „Ongoing“ consists out of a undefined number of walking flower pots which are programmed to find the brightest spot in a room without hitting any potential objects on their way.

This very simple behaviour gives a bit of the lost freedom back. [...]



Scared Cube

[2009] Scared Cube is a little Robot that flees from any visitor. It was exhibited in »Santralistanbul« the museum of modern art in Istanbul. [...]



Kunstrasen

[2009] A little robotic device to draw any vector-graphics into urban lawns. [...]



Walking Things

[2009 - 2010] A family of walking robots. [...]



Interactive database visualisation - Schlossmuseum Linz

[2009] Schlossmuseum Linz is opening new parts of its permanent exhibition and argeMarie, Andreas Jalsovec and Woeishi Lean had the opportunity create an exhibition concept for a whole room introducing the visitors in a playful manner, diving into the huge data-pool of Upperaustria’s geotagged databases. [...]



Teelicht

[2009] Pendant lamp with pull switch // small series production [...]



Zero 7

[2007] In a team of 5 design–students and 3 students of a technical highschool we built a prototyp car to participate in the »shell eco marathon« in nogaro. Our intention was to extend the ecological approach of using a minimum of energy for transport in direction of an overall ecological design–concept. [...]



Drawing Machines

[2006] In combining porcelain and metal, a little family of drawingmachines evolved.
They can be winded up and leave different marks. [...]



Wie lang ist eine Minute?

[2004] The aim of this project was to visualize the length of one minute in a poetical way. The machine, when winded up, moves with a constant speed slowly forward. In sixty seconds it covers a distance of three meters.
The object demonstrates, in a nearly dramatic way, that time is an unchangeable factor. [...]



Products that the world doesnt need...

[2005] Originally the project was named „world improvement“ but to be honest in this way I had more fun...
To decapitate tense the knife, place the egg and close the cap. Adjust the lower semi-spherical shell in height to the egg and release. Afterwards shift the cap with the half of the egg with a kick and add salt. [...]