{"id":301821,"date":"2026-02-25T18:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301821\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T18:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T18:28:10","slug":"robotic-bird-by-korean-artist-duo-erases-its-own-footprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/301821\/","title":{"rendered":"robotic bird by korean artist duo erases its own footprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>no bird robot installation follows cyclical structure<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No Bird is an art installation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/korean-art\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Korean<\/a> husband-and-wife artist duo UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG. Based on a short story about flightless birds, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/kinetic-installations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kinetic work<\/a> is situated within a diorama-concept installation depicting sand terrain and consists of two mechanical devices that act in a cyclical structure.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designboom.com\/tag\/robots\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robotic<\/a> bird leaves footprints over sand while another machine follows behind to erase the tracks with a toothbrush, along with a thin wire rake that smooths the sand. Finally, soft bristles flatten the surface to complete the tracks\u2019 erasure.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"no bird 2\" width=\"818\" height=\"1454\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/no-bird-2-696f37a876e30.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyload\"\/><br \/>the bird-like machine walks across the sand, leaving footprints | all images by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ujoolimheeyoung\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UJOO+LIMHEEYOUNG use kinetic installation as social commentary<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When activated, the robotic bird operates for approximately 2 minutes. Its movement is triggered by a sensor detecting the viewer\u2019s proximity, and continues as long as the viewer remains within the sensor\u2019s range. Through the work\u2019s structure, with the endless formation and erasing of tracks, <a href=\"https:\/\/u-joolimheeyoung.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">the artists<\/a> reference our human survival and its repeated patterns of remembering and forgetting, generating and extinguishing, destroying and restoring.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"no bird 1\" width=\"818\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/no-bird-1-696f37a876dbf.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyload\"\/><br \/>the bird-like machine pauses as it walks in order to maintain a set distance from the trace-erasing machine<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"no bird 3\" width=\"818\" height=\"460\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/no-bird-3-696f37a876e75.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyload\"\/><br \/>the trace-erasing machine erases bird footprints left in the sand<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" bad-src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" alt=\"no bird 4\" width=\"818\" height=\"543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/no-bird-4-696f37a876eb0.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" lazyload\"\/><br \/>the trace-erasing machine uses a toothbrush, rotating pins, and soft bristles<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"no bird robot installation follows cyclical structure \u00a0 No Bird is an art installation by South Korean husband-and-wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,10491,165613,111,139,69,11393],"class_list":{"0":"post-301821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-artsdesign","12":"tag-design","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-kinetic-installations","15":"tag-korean-art","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-robots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}