dorkbot pittsburgh

Ian is a roboticist and owner of Ingram Clockworks, a small Lamettrian Geppettoist company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Using tickworks and tockworks, we make machines, creatures, remnants of creature-like machines, artificial symbioses, observations of encounters with creatures unknown to most of Science, and the Like.

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Adrien is a an Assistant Professor in the computer graphics group at Carnegie Mellon University. He was one of the creators of Foldit, the computer game where users contribute to science by folding proteins. He also pursues research in the simulation and animation of very high-dimensional nonlinear phenomena like animal morphology, human motion, and large fluid systems.

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Keny builds kinetic, sometimes robotic art that plays with technology and how people relate to it. Hand-built devices are combined in seemingly ridiculous ways as a means of critiquing the increasingly invisible world that technology inhabits. Electric motors, surplus lab equipment, and scrap hardware are (re)sourced to build systems with transparent inner workings to counteract the “blackbox” nature of present technology. Currently Keny is the Coordinator of Special Projects for Phil Fraley Productions, where he manages teams of artists, blacksmiths, and fossil preparators in the fabrication, installation and rigging of large scale natural history museum exhibits.


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Carin is a sculptor and installation artist who currently lives and works in Pittsburgh. In her recent work, she has utilized recycled materials such as Styrofoam and plastic packaging to create works that examine the often contradictory desires that we look to the natural world to fulfill. She is the recipient of several awards, including a 2007 grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowships from the PA Council on the Arts in 2002 and 2007 and an Individual Artist Award from the Pittsburgh Foundation. She currently works as an exhibits preparator for Phil Fraley Productions, where she prepares fossil specimens and creates natural history museum exhibits.

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Chico acts as the Artistic Director of Amorphic Robot Works (ARW), a collective he founded in 1991, consisting of artists and engineers who help in the realization of his work. Since that time, his investigations have resulted in the creation of more than 250 mechanical sculptures that assume anthropomorphic and abstract forms.

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