Inspiration came from machines designed and manufactured for the Art Director Club of New York. The Rockwell Group commissioned Canadian designers and artists Larose Guyon to design an original piece of art for the lobby of the EMC2 Chicago Hotel. The result ? An interactive sculpture called "Copper in Motion" which is used to bring the concept of the hotel to its visitors by immersing them directly into the world of art and science.  

Based on the zootrope, invented in 1834 by William George Horner and the Austrian Stampfer and which led to the birth of cinema, Larose Guyon revisits this old technology to create in its own way a whole new way of animating the material. Forty-four pairs of laser-cut copper wings are thus placed inside a large wheel which is actuated by means of a crank. And it is by looking inside it and turning it with the hand, that the show comes alive.

The usually cold and inert matter suddenly becomes light and alive. The crank, like a lace flower, shines with femininity and romance. The wings come alive in three dimensions, leaving the spectator captivated by the magic of the show.  

An ingenious work that reminds us that the inventions of the past can still amaze the child in all of us.