Oribotics

Oribotics is an artwork / continuing field of research by Matthew Gardiner.

Oribotic works are classified by their year of generation.



2005

Print Material

The following is a selection of print material, used either for invitiations, programs or catalogues.

oribotics invitation

This folding invitation was introduced to me by Akio Hizume in Japan, he discovered it by his own genius, only to later be told that another origami / mathematician had invented it 10 years prior. And so we used it with permission via Mr Hizume, and we acknowledge the design to the original inventor Humiaki Huzita.

My Trinh Ha (now My Trinh Gardiner) designed the flyer to suit the pentagonal crease pattern. The guys at Arena Printing did a great job sourcing a form and some clever machinery to make the scorelines on the invites. Without scores, the folding of 2000+ invitations would have been impossible. Thanks to the Melbourne Origami Group, we folded all the flyers perfectly!

oribotics program front

After folding 2000 of the invitations we decided that the audience should do some folding, so the program for Oribotics [laboratory] at the Sidney Myer Asialink Centre had a very simple crease pattern incorporated into the design. Significantly, the crease pattern is the same crease pattern developed during my Latrobe Regional Gallery Residency in 2003, at the time I coined the term Oribotics.

oribotics program back

Text

Writings about Oribotics.

Triple J interview with Matthew Gardiner
The ancient paper art of origami gets seriously bent by origami artist, Matt Gardiner, who's speaking with Jennifer Hopper.

J arts Interview   [958KB]
from triple J podcast

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iconJenny Sinclair, Spaced-out artists create way-out worlds, The Age, 2nd October 2005

iconElectrofringe: replicate, automate, infiltrate, Realtime, 2004

iconCynthia Troup, Mechaniflorum quinquiplicatum M.Gardiner et sp. nov, UN Magazine 01, 2004