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[Kids Collaborate with Robot Artists for Art Show at Cartoon Network Studios]
Kids have collaborated with robot artists by providing vital insights into cartoon network content and making drawings of favorite characters for the artists to include in their process.
Press Kit at http://maxchandler.com/
[Burbank, CA – [Sept. 15, 2010] –
[A new art show opening soon at the Cartoon Network Studios in Burbank, CA features artwork made by robot artists Pindar Van Arman and Max Chandler made in collaboration with kids from VA, CA, and MO. The kids provided drawings made on their own which were combined with other materials from Cartoon Network shows into their processes that include robots. The artists also collaborated with each other by each working on different portions of paintings. Although their processes are quite different both artists produce robot artworks that result in a completed painting.]
Drawing by Cassie Chandler Painting by Pindar Van Arman and Max Chandler from
11, Joplin, MO lettering and drawing by Dante Van Arman, 6, Washington, DC
The Kids
[Dante Van Arman 6, Washington, DC
Hunter Van Arman 5, Washington, DC
Ben Yokota 11, Emeryville, CA
Cassie Chandler 11, Joplin, MO
Kirk Chandler 7, Joplin, MO]
The Artists
Pindar Van Arman, Washington, DC. In addition to being a Cocoran College of Art and Design graduate with a Master's degree, Pindar is a skillful programmer. He programmed on the ENSCO team that won a DARPA medal in the famous DARPA robot car race. He has combined his art and computer skills to build two painting robots from industrial and hand crafted parts. Pindar has shown is work in Washington. DC, Chicago, and Brooklyn. He has painted several album covers for musicians and other commissions.
Pindar Van Arman and his painting robots
[Max Chandler grew up on farms in southern Missouri; studied Math at MIT, Chinese at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, and Art in Taiwan through the Foreign Student Center at Taiwan Normal University. He was an student of internationally known artist Chen Ting-shih. Max was a contributor to some SimCity games and The Sims.
His parents say he started drawing about the same time he started walking. Art
has been a constant activity ever since. In the late 1990's he began to combine
his technology interest with his art interest by making robot generated art. He
began exhibiting in 2004 and has exhibited continously ever since. Has been in
shows in San Francisco, LA, San Diego, Boston, New York, Paris, Tokyo, Kyoto,
and Seoul He is the three time winner of the Robot painting gold medal at Robogames.]
One of Max Chandler's robots painting a super large guitar for Guitarmania.
The Robots
Zanelle is made and used by Pindar Van Arman
Max Chandler's robot M1 at work
Contact Information:
Cartoon Network Studios
Dennis Delrogh
300 North Third Street, Burbank, CA 91502
818-729-4088
Dennis.Delrogh@
Pindar Van Arman
703-732-3535
www.vanarman.com
pindar@pindar.org
Max Chandler
480-323-8167
maxchandler.com
max@maxchandler.com
