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I’m very much impressed and amazed by this machine. You wouldn’t imagine how I fell about seeing it in reality. I’ve already bought my ticket to go & see it in real.

It is called the strandbeest/s! One of a kind, I’ve never seen anything like it. The way it moves, the way the wind let it act; everything is so unbelievable about it.

The artist is Theo Jansen.

Born in the Netherlands in 1948, Theo Jansen studied physics at the University of Delft but left in 1974 to pursue what became a lifelong career in art—especially art explored through technology. Among his early projects, he built a machine that could paint and staged a convincing UFO encounter over Delft.

Constructed from plastic PVC tubing, zip ties, and string, strandbeests are the ultimate in humble down-home DIY. But they come to life with animal grace the second they begin to move: Wings flap. Tubular muscles extend. Knobby knees flex. Feet lift. Wind is gulped and stored for energy.

The beach animals’ simple parts belie their complex construction and behaviors. Mechanical nerves trigger reflexes that border on thought. Always, survival is the goal. One beest detects an incoming tide, turns, and beats a retreat to higher ground. Another, sensing the high winds of a storm, pounds an anchor into the sand to keep itself from blowing away.

http://www.exploratorium.edu/strandbeest

The product of a 25-year lineage of ongoing evolution, each species of strandbeest bears a Latin name reflective of its unique character and adaptations. Animaris Currens Vaporis, or “walking steam animal,” puffs like a steam engine. Animaris Vermiculus,or “worm animal,” wriggles like its namesake.

Often, newer species retain the successful anatomical features of their predecessors and shed what fails to serve. In this way, innovations in form, tools, and technique—the haphazard lessons of sheer trial and error—shape the strandbeests over time.

Animaris ordis

Adular

2012 – Drowning is a real danger for strandbeests, living as they do by the seashore.

Wagging its nose here and there, Adulari samples its surroundings in an effort to detect incoming surface. If nerves in its nose detect water,Adulari reverses direction, heading for higher—and safer—ground.

animaris umerus segundus