A long time resident of the Boston area, Arthur Ganson has created kinetic sculptures for over thirty years. His colorful career includes collaborations with dance and theater artists, one-man shows at Harvard's Carpenter Center and the DeCordova Museum, inclusion in the Ars Electronica festival in Linz, Austria, and an annual role as ringleader of the MIT Museum's Friday after Thanksgiving Chain Reaction. Ganson's sculptures have been exhibited at the MIT Museum since 1995, and he can requently be found in the gallery, adjusting their mechanisms or bringing in new works. "We read objects in motion on both the objective and subjective levels," says Ganson. "A machine may be about fabric or grease, but it may also be about thick liquid and sensuous movement. A bit deeper, it may be about meditation or the sense of release. And taken another step, it may be about pure nvention and the joyfulness in the heart of its creator." At the TED Conference and at the Long Now Foundation, Ganson spoke about his engagement with the "logical flows of energy through a system," about his deep commitment to /!working with my hands in a very focused, intense way," and about his connection to engineering. "I love to figure things out," he says. Yet he encourages viewers to bring their on experiences to sculptures that he as "wrestled into reality." According to Arthur Ganson, "Everything you feel about them is true - for you."
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