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Nemo Gould: His Art Is So INSANE Everyone Thinks It’s AI

Nemo Gould is a kinetic assemblage sculptor who turns found objects, discarded tools, machine parts, trophies, toys, and trash into strange mechanical creatures that light up, move, and feel alive. In a world increasingly flooded with AI-generated images, Nemo’s work can look almost impossible, but every piece is built by hand.

In this short documentary, we visit Nemo’s studio and explore the world of an artist who has spent his life taking things apart, finding hidden potential inside broken objects, and rebuilding them into interactive sculptures full of humor, motion, satire, and wonder.

Nemo describes himself as a “pretty accomplished hoarder,” but his collections of parts are the raw material for something far more meaningful: a lifelong practice of reclaiming the physical world. His kinetic sculptures use real light, real sound, real switches, real mechanisms, and thousands of hours of hand-built craft.

From his childhood fascination with taking apart toys and appliances, to his time as an artist-in-residence at the San Francisco dump, Nemo’s work asks a surprisingly urgent question: what are we losing when convenience, screens, and artificial images replace the joy of making something real? This is a portrait of an artist building strange machines, mechanical creatures, and handmade sculptures that remind us what wonder feels like.

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The Grind, 2021 Nemo Gould

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Nemo Gould - Click Bait

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Artist Nemo Gould's "Click Bait" is the "painful reminder of our folly" we all need Oakland, CA found object artist, kinetic sculptor, and self-described "master accumulator," Nemo Gould, has a number of affordable objets d'art on his website. His most recent offering tickles me to no end. Called "Click Bait," it's an iPhone crossed with a rodent snap trap. — Read the rest https://boingboing.net/2023/03/01/artist-nemo-goulds-click-bait-is-the-painful-reminder-of-our-folly-we-all-need.html

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Fine artist and self-described master hoarder Nemo Gould conjures up fantastic sculptures made entirely of found objects. Rich wood and gleaming chrome catch the eye as they cycle through their kinetic loops, while tentacles and antennae extend in a playful fashion like a sci-fi comic book come to life.

The Megalodon is Gould’s latest work, a 16-foot-long salvaged fuel tank from an F-94 bomber plane’s wing. The shark has working propellers for fins, and a tail that glides back and forth ominously. A cutaway on the side reveals various boiler and control rooms, each with their own delicately installed moving parts. It’s packed full of tiny human figures and whimsical creatures alike, all in mid-task as they operate their predatory underwater vessel.

(via Watch the Tiny Moving Scenes in This Shark Submarine Sculpture)

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Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or depends on motion for its effect. For the 11 international artists in the upcoming exhibit “Perpetual Motion” at Heron Arts in San Francisco, movement is fundamental to storytelling. Their collective kinetic works offer a modern interpretation of this age old art form that redefined sculpture into much more than three-dimensional- it transformed our perceptions of line, color and life itself into an extension of the human imagination.

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