Susan Alexander‘s Cartwheels Gizmo Box is a collection of characters mounted on rotating shafts. As they turn, they appear like circus acrobatic clowns performing for an audience.
Susan has also designed another performance piece called Nervous People which are characters on radio-controlled platforms that move around stage briefly and then “spaz out.”
The Cartwheels Gizmo Box and Nervous People were exhibited at RoboFest 7.
These pieces are part of a series of theatrical robots and performance art being designed for stage performance. Brooks Coleman is directing the robot theatre movement.