Today I took another picture at the campus of the university.This huge metal sculpture is located between the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and the Leibniz-Institute for New Materials (INM).
Oswald Hiery (a sculptor from Saarland) created this work of art in 1993, and called it "Automedon" who originally was a greek waggon conductor.
"The theme is about the striving of man to generate movement with a lower-most amount of own energy. The striving for automatization is directed to all areas of man's life. That's why the figure is fitted with wheels as well as with wings and was set into a relaxing position." (-> via DFKI Site)
The statue is absolutely amazing, it's huge when you stand in front of it, it's so impressive!
If you want to read more about it, there was an article some time ago in a student's magazine (sorry, in German only).
PS: Sorry, I couldn't check for the eagle on the crane yet... tomorrow I'll go there again, I promise!
"The theme is about the striving of man to generate movement with a lower-most amount of own energy. The striving for automatization is directed to all areas of man's life. That's why the figure is fitted with wheels as well as with wings and was set into a relaxing position." (-> via DFKI Site)
The statue is absolutely amazing, it's huge when you stand in front of it, it's so impressive!
If you want to read more about it, there was an article some time ago in a student's magazine (sorry, in German only).
PS: Sorry, I couldn't check for the eagle on the crane yet... tomorrow I'll go there again, I promise!
8 comments:
looks like a nice campus and I like the geometric design and composition of your photo!
very well taken picture. i like it.
Hmm interesting...and very informative
The statue looks a bit like a bionicle. (lego toys that seem to have battles in my house)
Very interesting post!
What does DFKI translate to "auf Deutsch"? Just curious. I'm gonna have to make it to Saarbrüken one of these days to see the campus.
Interesting concept for a sculpture and interesting that it is even tho so large still doesn't take all the space up...
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DFKI stands for "Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz" and the English translation is "German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence".
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