living house ‘lumi’
Commissioned by Cross-TIC, a theatrical production is being created using a "living" tiny house as the backdrop, stage and character. This tiny house walks on robotic chicken legs (think the cross between Baba Yaga's hut and an AT-ST) and is on the run from the rising tide. Over the course of 2024, Lumi has been developed and released into the wild, developed as a theatrical production (Theatre on Tour), a number of pop-up performances (Gogbot 2024, Heimland Festival 2024), a short film and an art exhibition.
Edwin Dertien
I'm a passionate maker and tinkerer. I graduated from University of Twente in 2005 with an MSc in Mechatronics, continuing research at the Robotics and Mechatronics group on the design of a pipe inspection robot, obtaining my PhD in 2014. I have a fascination for robotics and have worked on several projects involving (autonomous) robots, both from an engineering and artistic interest. Since 2006 I have started my company 'Kunst- en Techniekwerk' (making art work) for providing the technical backbone in art-projects, ranging from dancing animatronic humanoids, robot-arms for sci-fi movies to autonomous GPS track drawing robots, and also realising various autonomous artworks, big moving sculptures and weird installations for festivals and exhibitions.