Jonathan Tippett is an artist and mechanical engineer with lifelong curiosity for the relationship between humans and machines. He earned his mechanical engineering degree from UBC in 1999 and has since worked in fuel cells, hydraulics and neurovascular implants. His sculptural media have spanned Plasticine, ceramics, metal and wood over the years, but his love of machines brought him to explore the intersection of form, function and human skill in the context of engineered and interactive sculpture. Co-creator of The Mondo Spider and co-founder of eatART, he is now developing his next experience based machine, Prosthesis: The Anti-Robot , in the eatART Lab. It is slated for completion in late 2015.
Bio from the period BIL record (source).
Talks
- Jonathan Tippett — BIL 2014