{"id":1343,"date":"2013-11-05T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T20:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/artwork\/corys-yellow-chair-2\/"},"modified":"2019-12-30T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T22:58:06","slug":"corys-yellow-chair-2","status":"publish","type":"artwork","link":"https:\/\/artelectronicmedia.com\/en\/artwork\/corys-yellow-chair-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory&#8217;s Yellow Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/u1278\/Corys%20Chair.jpg\" style=\" margin: 5px; height: 325px; width: 360px;\" \/>Cory\u2019s Yellow Chair<\/em> is a kinetic sculpture by Arthur Ganson that assembles, disassembles, and reconstructs a small, four-and-a-half-inch tall yellow chair indefinitely.\u00a0 Ganson says he got inspiration for this piece when his \u201cson&#8217;s little yellow chair explode with infinite speed, travel to the far reaches of the universe and slowly come to complete stillness. Then, beginning to collapse slowly at first, they reached infinite speed at the moment of becoming a complete chair again. They stopped instantaneously, for just a fleeting moment, and then exploded!\u201d [1]<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1343-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFG-Lk9c2CI&#038;_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFG-Lk9c2CI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFG-Lk9c2CI<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The piece, driven by a few small gears and belts with a driving motor hidden behind never stops, but somehow allows the chair to stay in completed form for a second before it explodes again, leaving for a bit of suspense whether or not the mechanism will keep going or not.\u00a0 According to Sculpture.org, \u201cGanson recognizes the comic yet poignant quality of chairs.\u201d [2] Cory\u2019s Yellow Chair is not the only piece by Ganson that involves a chair getting moved around and such.\u00a0 His large machine called Machine with Chair [3] rolls over to a single chair on the ground and picks it up, lifts it high in the air, spins it around, then places it right back down in the exact spot it was in before. Ganson\u2019s smaller piece, titled Thinking Chair is another tiny yellow chair that stands up on its legs and wobbles about over a floating rock.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ganson\u2019s sculptures are very similar to Metzger\u2019s installations of auto-destructive and auto-creative art [4], although Ganson\u2019s works do both the destruction and creation in the same piece, allowing for a creation that lasts longer than just one demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1343-2\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/youtube\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xSe2xzCbWkU&#038;_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xSe2xzCbWkU\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xSe2xzCbWkU<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>[1]\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFG-Lk9c2CI\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fFG-Lk9c2CI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>[2]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sculpture.org\/documents\/scmag98\/ganson\/sm-gansn.shtml\">http:\/\/www.sculpture.org\/documents\/scmag98\/ganson\/sm-gansn.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>[3]\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/arthurganson.com\/pages\/Sculptures.html\">http:\/\/arthurganson.com\/pages\/Sculptures.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>[4]\u00a0Edward A. 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