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Pe Lang creates hand-built sculptures that combine mechanized systems with other materials in a delicate balance of kinetic movement. His works are elegant, minimal and endlessly fascinating as they seem to hover between order and chaos. Moving Objects, built for the Exploratorium, is an example of the artist's interest in creating simple systems that generate wildly complex patterns.
Hundreds of black rings travel randomly left and right along more than fifty horizontal strings. Closer examination reveals that the strings are driven at each end by small motors and that the rings that seem to pass through each other are actually bouncing against one another.
Where: Ray and Dagmar Dolby Atrium