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Theo Jansen: My creations, a new form of life
Theo Jansen dáva život novým tvorom.
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Umelec Theo Jansen predvádza svoje akoby živé pohyblivé sochy, ktoré stavia z plastových trubíc a fliaš od limonády. Jeho stvorenia sú navrhnuté tak, aby sa pohybovali a dokonca prežívali samostatne.
Theo Jansen - Artist
Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who builds walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life. His "Strandbeests" walk the coastline of Holland, feeding on wind and fleeing from water. Full bio
Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who builds walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life. His "Strandbeests" walk the coastline of Holland, feeding on wind and fleeing from water. Full bio
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I would like to tell you about a project
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Rád by som vám porozprával o projekte,
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which I started about 16 years ago,
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na ktorom som začal pracovať asi pred šestnástimi rokmi.
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and it's about making new forms of life.
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Ide o vytváranie nových foriem života.
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And these are made of this kind of tube --
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Vyrábam ich z takýchto trubíc,
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electricity tube, we call it in Holland.
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v Holandsku ich voláme elektrické trubice,
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And we can start a film about that,
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môžme si o tom pustiť film
00:48
and we can see a little bit backwards in time.
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a vrátiť sa kúsok späť v čase.
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(Video) Narrator: Eventually, these beasts are going to live in herds on the beaches.
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Komentátor: Postupne budú tieto tvory žiť v čriedach na pobreží.
00:57
Theo Jansen is working hard on this evolution.
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Theo Jansen tvrdo pracuje na svojej evolúcii.
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Theo Jansen: I want to put these forms of life on the beaches.
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Theo Jansen: Chcem tieto formy života dostať na pobrežie.
01:09
And they should survive over there,
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V budúcnosti by tam mali
01:12
on their own, in the future.
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prežívať vlastnými silami.
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Learning to live on their own --
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Naučiť sa žiť samostatne.
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and it'll take couple of more years to let them walk on their own.
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Ešte to pár rokov zaberie, kým budú chodiť samostatne.
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Narrator: The mechanical beasts will not get their energy from food, but from the wind.
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Komentátor: Tieto mechanické tvory nebudú získavať energiu z potravy, ale z vetra.
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The wind will move feathers on their back, which will drive their feet.
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Vietor bude hýbať perami, ktoré majú na chrbte a tak bude poháňať ich nohy.
01:38
The beast walks sideways on the wet sand of the beach,
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Stvorenie kráča bokom po mokrom piesku na pláži
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with its nose pointed into the wind.
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a nos mu smeruje proti vetru.
01:47
As soon as it walks into either the rolling surf or the dry sand, it stops,
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Akonáhle vojde do cesty prílivu alebo na suchý piesok, zastane
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and walks in the opposite direction.
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a vyberie sa opačným smerom.
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Evolution has generated many species.
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Evolúcia stvorila mnohé druhy.
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This is the Animaris Currens Ventosa.
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Toto je Animaris Currens Ventosa.
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(Applause)
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(potlesk)
02:35
TJ: This is a herd, and it is built according to genetical codes.
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Jansen: Toto je črieda, je postavená podľa genetických kódov,
02:42
And it is a sort of race, and each and every animal is different,
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a je to akási súťaž. Každé zviera je veľmi odlišné
02:46
and the winning codes will multiply.
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a víťazné kódy sa rozmnožia.
02:49
This is the wave, going from left to right. You can see this one.
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Toto je vlna, ide zľava doprava, tu to vidíte.
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And now it goes from -- yes, now it goes from left to right.
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A teraz ide...áno, ide zľava doprava.
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This is a new generation, a new family,
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Toto je nová generácia, nová rodina,
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which is able to store the winds.
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ktorá je schopná vietor ukladať.
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So, the wings pump up air in lemonade bottles,
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Krídla napumpujú vzduch do fliaš od limonády,
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which are on top of that.
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ktoré sú navrchu...
03:12
And they can use that energy in case the wind falls away,
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a potom zvieratá použijú túto energiu v prípade, že nastane bezvetrie
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and the tide is coming up, and there is still a little bit of energy
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a príliv sa bude dvíhať. Budú mať malé množstvo energie,
03:21
to reach the dunes and save their lives, because they are drowned very easily.
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ktoré im umožní dostať sa k dunám a zachrániť si život, pretože sa ľahko utopia.
03:27
(Laughter)
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(smiech)
03:33
I could show you this animal.
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Ukážem vám toto zviera.
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(Applause) Thank you.
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(potlesk) Ďakujem.
03:51
So, the proportion of the tubes in this animal is very important for the walking.
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Pomery trubíc u tohto zvieraťa sú veľmi dôležité pre jeho chôdzu.
03:58
There are 11 numbers, which I call the 11 holy numbers.
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Ide o 11 čísel, ktoré nazývam svätými číslami.
04:01
These are the distances of the tubes which make it walk that way.
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Sú to vzdialenosti trubíc, ktoré mu umožňujú takto chodiť.
04:06
In fact, it's a new invention of the wheel.
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V podstate je to ako nové vynájdenie kolesa.
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It works the same as a wheel.
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Funguje to rovnako ako koleso.
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The axis of a wheel is staying on the same level,
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Osa kolesa ostáva v rovnakej výške
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and this hip is staying on the same level as well.
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a jeho panva tiež ostáva v rovnakej výške.
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In fact, this is better than a wheel, because
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Vlastne je to lepšie než koleso, pretože
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when you try to drive with your bicycle on the beach,
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keď sa snažíte bicyklovať po pláži,
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you will notice it's very hard to do.
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ide to len veľmi ťažko.
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And the feet just step over the sand,
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Nohy piesok prekračujú,
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and the wheel has to touch every piece of the ground in between.
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zato koleso sa musí dotknúť zeme po celej trase.
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So, 5,000 years after the invention of the wheel,
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Takže 5000 rokov po vynájdení kolesa
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we have a new wheel. And I will show you, in the next video
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máme nové koleso. V ďalšom videu vám ukážem..
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-- can you start it, please? --
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môžete to pustiť, prosím?
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that very heavy loads can be moved.
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..že dokážem pohnúť aj veľmi ťažkými nákladmi.
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There's a guy pushing there, behind,
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Tohto tlačí zozadu človek,
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but can also walk on the wind very well.
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ale vedia dobre chodiť aj na vietor.
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It's 3.2 tons.
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A to má 3,2 tony.
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And this is working on the stored winds in the bottles.
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Tento funguje na uskladnený vietor vo fľašiach.
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It has a feeler, where it can feel obstacles and turn around.
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Má tykadlo, ktorým cíti prekážky a vie sa otočiť.
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And that stuff, you see, is going to it the other way.
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Tuto to vidíte, ide to opačným smerom.
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Can I have the feeler here?
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Podáte mi tykadlo?
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OK. Good.
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OK. Dobre.
05:43
So, they have to survive all the dangers of the beach,
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Musia prežiť všetky nebezpečenstvá pláže,
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and one of the big dangers is the sea. This is the sea.
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jedným z nich je more. Toto je more.
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And it must feel the water of the sea.
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Zviera musí cítiť vodu.
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And this is the water feeler.
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Toto je vodné tykadlo.
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And what's very important is this tube. It sucks in air normally,
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Veľmi dôležitá je táto trubica. Za normálnych okolností nasáva vzduch,
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but when it swallows water, it feels the resistance of it.
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ale keď prehltne vodu, pocíti jej odpor.
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So imagine that the animal is walking towards the sea.
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Takže si predstavte, že zviera kráča k moru.
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As soon as it touches the water, you should hear a sort of sound of running air.
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Akonáhle sa dotkne vody, mali by sme počuť zvuk ako keď uniká vzduch.
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Yes! So if it doesn't feel, it will be drowned, OK?
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Áno! Ak by to necítilo, utopilo by sa, jasné?
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Here, we have the brain of the animal.
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Tu máme mozog zvieraťa.
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In fact, it is a step counter, and it counts the steps.
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V podstate je to krokomer, ráta kroky.
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It's a binary step counter.
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Je to binárny krokomer.
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So as soon it has been to the sea,
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Takže akonáhle dôjde k moru,
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it changes the pattern of zeroes and ones here,
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zmení vzorec núl a jednotiek
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and it knows always where it is on the beach. So it's very simple brain.
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a vždy vie, kde na pláži sa nachádza. Je to veľmi jednoduchý mozog.
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It says, well, there's the sea, there are dunes, and I'm here.
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Povie mu - tu je more, tu sú duny a ja som tu.
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So it's a sort of imagination of the simple world of the beach animal.
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Takže je to predstava o jednoduchom svete plážového zvieraťa.
07:23
Thank you.
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Ďakujem
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One of the biggest enemies are the storms.
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Jedným z najväčších nepriateľov sú búrky.
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This is a part of the nose of the Animaris Percipiere,
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Toto je časť nosa Animaris Percipiere,
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and when the nose is fixed -- of the animal -- the whole animal is fixed.
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a keď upevníme nos, upevníme aj zviera.
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So when the storm is coming up,
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Takže keď prichádza búrka,
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it drives a pin into the ground. (Laughter)
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zapichne do zeme kôl. (smiech)
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And the nose is fixed, the whole animal is fixed.
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Nos je pevný, takže aj zviera je pevné.
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The wind may turn, but the animal will turn always its nose into the wind.
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Vietor sa môže obrátiť, ale zviera vždy otočí nos proti vetru.
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Now, another couple of years, and these animals will survive on their own.
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Ešte pár rokov, a tieto zvieratá budú schopné prežiť sami.
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I still have to help them a lot.
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Teraz im ešte musím veľa pomáhať.
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Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
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Ďakujem vám veľmi pekne, dámy a páni.
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(Applause).
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Theo Jansen - ArtistTheo Jansen is a Dutch artist who builds walking kinetic sculptures that he calls a new form of life. His "Strandbeests" walk the coastline of Holland, feeding on wind and fleeing from water.
Why you should listen
Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been working for 16 years to create sculptures that move on their own in eerily lifelike ways. Each generation of his "Strandbeests" is subject to the forces of evolution, with successful forms moving forward into new designs. Jansen's vision and long-term commitment to his wooden menagerie is as fascinating to observe as the beasts themselves.
His newest creatures walk without assistance on the beaches of Holland, powered by wind, captured by gossamer wings that flap and pump air into old lemonade bottles that in turn power the creatures' many plastic spindly legs. The walking sculptures look alive as they move, each leg articulating in such a way that the body is steady and level. They even incorporate primitive logic gates that are used to reverse the machine's direction if it senses dangerous water or loose sand where it might get stuck.
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