It’s fitting that the European renaissance of automata, or kinetic sculptures designed to mimic human movement, began with a clockmaker—like their timekeeping counterparts, automata operate on cue, ...

Even before Mary Shelley imagined the animation of the lifeless in Frankenstein, brilliant minds across Europe – clockmakers, to be exact – were already tinkering in their workshops, breathing life ...

AutomataCon, following up its successful first event held in 2016, returns to Morristown, New Jersey May 18 - 20, 2018. AutomataCon is a convention of and for artists, collectors, historians, and ...