Ian Ingram
@ianingram.bsky.social
Artist/Roboticist/Animal. I build robots for animals and the landscapes and systems they live within. I also lead the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. www.ianingram.org
When the earth is no longer a suitable home, the earthworms will transmogrify into beings better aligned with an increasingly plastic world.
January 26, 2025 at 12:08 AM
When the earth is no longer a suitable home, the earthworms will transmogrify into beings better aligned with an increasingly plastic world.
A wee woodland robot called Lizardless Legs competes for territory with local lizards.
The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.
The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.
December 1, 2024 at 3:29 AM
A wee woodland robot called Lizardless Legs competes for territory with local lizards.
The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.
The robot’s body is reduced to the bare minimum necessary to execute the territorial push-up gesture the lizards use to claim their diminutive domains and to fight their bloodless ceremonial bobbing battles.
In Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, a robot called The Woodiest translates territorial drumming between closely related woodpecker species that might encounter each other for the first time due to habitat disruption. Then it explains anthropogenic climate change to them in Morse Code on the tree trunk.
November 22, 2024 at 6:33 PM
In Nobody Told the Woodpeckers, a robot called The Woodiest translates territorial drumming between closely related woodpecker species that might encounter each other for the first time due to habitat disruption. Then it explains anthropogenic climate change to them in Morse Code on the tree trunk.
A rat king is a mischief of rats entangled at the tails, forced to live every moment of their lives together.
In the installation Rat King, rats are re-embodied as robots entangled into the neglected spaces of the building that the rats call their home.
In the installation Rat King, rats are re-embodied as robots entangled into the neglected spaces of the building that the rats call their home.
September 22, 2024 at 8:51 PM
A rat king is a mischief of rats entangled at the tails, forced to live every moment of their lives together.
In the installation Rat King, rats are re-embodied as robots entangled into the neglected spaces of the building that the rats call their home.
In the installation Rat King, rats are re-embodied as robots entangled into the neglected spaces of the building that the rats call their home.
The feathery robotic being On Beyond Mother Goose has two dance partners to guide her pirouettes and tail flicks: her mate On Beyond Father Gander–far away yet mirroring her moves in perfect synchrony–and the Earth’s magnetic field that they both feel flow through the sensors at their core.
September 14, 2024 at 11:30 AM
The feathery robotic being On Beyond Mother Goose has two dance partners to guide her pirouettes and tail flicks: her mate On Beyond Father Gander–far away yet mirroring her moves in perfect synchrony–and the Earth’s magnetic field that they both feel flow through the sensors at their core.