David Bowen is currently Associate Professor of Sculpture and Physical Computing at the University of Minnesota, Duluth.

His artist website here: dwbowen.com is a great resource for learning more about his artwork and includes videos of some of these same pieces and others, plus a detailed resume.

Recent artist statement:

Using intersections between natural and mechanical systems, David Bowen produces unique relationships within his sculpture and installation. With robotics, custom software, sensors, tele-presence and data, he constructs devices and situations that are set in motion to interface with the physical and virtual world. The devices he constructs often play both the roles of observer and creator, providing limited and mechanical perspectives of dynamic situations and living systems. These devices and situations create a dissonance that leads to an incalculable changeable situation resulting in unpredictable outcomes. The phenomenological outputs are collaborations between the natural form or function, the mechanism and the artist.