I recently discovered ARTOMICA design studio. Founded by and featuring the work of Thomas Kuntz. It is really a hard site to explain. There is examples of animatronics and automatons, stop-motion animation, and states. Weird, wonderful, and a little disturbing too. Better yet, I will just quote from the information on the site.
Thomas has been working constantly as a professional artist since 1986, but his private projects tend to feature the mysterious,uncanny,sometimes darkly horrific and bittersweet sad aspects of human nature.He has devoted a lifetime to aquire the skills of designer, sculptor, mechanician, automatist, animator, modelmaker, painter and conceptualist.
In the new world order marketplace of branding, globalization, Automation, compartmentalization and the subsequent general shrinkage and decline of craftsmanship, Thomas is in fact a dying breed (see “haxanthrobotics”) and ARTOMIC is a bonafide anomalie. His inspirations span the centuries and are cross-pollinated in subject matter and approach. Dada-surrealism, mechanical engineering, architecture, atom-age kitsch, erotica, exotica, classical renaissance, horology, anthropology, artificial life/androides and anatomy to name just a few. It is not uncommon to see his projects packaged with a strong dose of “gallows humor” theatrics, propaganda, and magick.
A visually exciting site to see, with beautiful piano music too. Worth a look.
