The Sixth Lecture

The speaker this week was Brad Litwin, a kinetic sculptor for 30 years and was "tickled to be here". This was the best lecture so far, Brad grew up alongside technology and watched it develop so he had a full view of technology. He had many jobs involving technology, he was a computer beta tester, a program designer, graphic designer, an artist, and an engineer. He started off as a kinetic sculptor 30 years ago and took a break for a while to raise a family, but he is now back creating wicked awesome machines. It was really interesting to get a quick, full history of computers from the eyes of an artist. Mr Litwin now uses computers to do blueprints for all of his creations but thirty years ago when he started off he didn't bother with blueprints and just built. He made one machine that way and realized how insane that is. The next machine had full blueprints and schematics hand drawn up and he continued to hand draw until computers could handle the complex ideas he weaved into his art. I liked how he fused art, computers and physics all into one great kinetic sculpture.