Tensegrity is a special kind of structure made of push and pull.
Our latest creation stood ten meters tall at the Wildeburg festival last summer.
You can see open source the software model that was used to create it.
This all began as a software project, and I am at heart a software developer (sorry, so this is going to get weird). When I think of art, I think of what Joscha Bach describes.
In the 1960s Ken Snelson first explored what could be done (artistically) with structures that were based on using only continuous tension and floating compression, and Bucky Fuller elaborated the philosophical implications and called it tensegrity. Tom Flemons showed us what it could mean in terms of biology.
The Pretenst project starts in the abstract with a home grown software model (minimal physics engine) called elastic interval geometry, and extends the exploration into what can be designed and ultimately built in physical form when you work in terms of only push and pull forces.
Click on the images below or scan the QR with your smart phone to see how the designs emerge.