Matthew Manos: Defiant Devices

I’m fas­ci­nated by this intri­cate art piece by Matthew Manos, Defiant Devices (When They’re Not Looking). Each com­po­nent of this imag­ined machine was drawn with pen­cil before being col­laged together and arranged three-dimensionally. Here’s a lit­tle descrip­tion of the con­cept from the artist himself:

An obses­sive inven­tor has ded­i­cated his life to defy­ing a self-sustaining cen­sor­ship machine. Every night, when they’re not look­ing he enters the machine, seeks it’s flaws, and invents a defi­ant device. Every night when he’s not look­ing, the machine responds, gen­er­at­ing a new apendage, a soft­ware update. One day the inven­tor will beat the machine, but until then he keeps try­ing, every night.

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This entry was written by Courtney, posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:00 am, filed under Art. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

5 Comments

  1. Kate
    Posted April 13, 2011 at 1:48 pm | Permalink

    “sculp­tural illus­tra­tion” is the best way to describe this piece! i love it!

  2. Matthew Manos
    Posted April 13, 2011 at 3:21 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for posting!

  3. Jordi
    Posted April 13, 2011 at 6:31 pm | Permalink

    As a fanatic of design and art, I find so inter­est­ing this blog based in another sim­ple con­cept. Congratulations for the blog, we will come back soon to check!

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  4. Lorie
    Posted April 14, 2011 at 12:21 pm | Permalink

    Great post! I loved the intri­cate details, as you turn each corner.

  5. Jeff
    Posted April 14, 2011 at 1:16 pm | Permalink

    Amazing work with such detail!

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