Sculptor Christopher Conte combines his artwork and his experience making prosthetics to create mechanical, science fiction–inspired work with a touch of the dark side.
Machine Evolution
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“Here I started taking on a sort of art nouveau influence with the lines and the movement,” Conte says, pointing to the tubes running along the outside of one skull. In his version of the more evolved and computerlike human brain, “there’s so much processing power inside the head. You know computers run really, really fast and have a lot of processing power. They get very hot. Now they’re using liquid cooling.” The liquid cooling system wrapped around this skull is made from cable housing used in upper-extremity prosthetics.
October 9th, 2008 at 1:43 am
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October 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm
Love Christopher work,all skulptures are perfect,clean,briliant as allways
Good luck and keep creating!
October 23rd, 2008 at 4:55 pm
Love Christopher skulptures,
clean,perfect,briliant like allways.Keep creating good stuff
Blessings
S
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September 10th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
hey doc, how would you feel about making a left handed prosthetic terminator arm?
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