Throughout my career, I have been in a surplus with photographic equipment deemed “unusable” and “obsolete” -things that can no longer serve its purpose. Instead of throwing it all away, I have decided to make use of what is left -gears, motors, and various scraps of material, with my brief background in electronics. I started turning broken camera parts into B.E.A.M. robots. B.E.A.M., standing for Biology Electronics Aesthetics Mechanics, was a movement in robotics which stressed the simplicity of the machine while providing complex behavior that mimic the natural world. My robots, made from the parts of broken cameras, “look” towards the brightest source of light, and are powered by nothing else but light.
