Ian Ingram

@ianingram.bsky.social

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Artist/Roboticist/Animal. I build robots for animals and the landscapes and systems they live within. I also lead the Conservation Technology Lab at the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. www.ianingram.org

Photo of the cover of Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive. Light blue background with a bird figure made of electronics and clear plastic and the word Alive in prominent font.
Sign for the exhibition AI Ecologies outside the gallery on a country road. The sign shows a glamorous person holding a potato, all generated by AI as part of an ad campaign for potatoes.
Photo of a two-headed woodpecker robot attached to a birch tree with a strap. One head is a metallic lime green and the other a metallic forest green. The former head is positioned by its motor, ready to execute the territorial drumming of the Pileated woodpecker on the tree trunk.
Two ziggy plastic worms squirm in an angular sort of way while hovering over some loamy soil.
A western fence lizard and a robot that looks like two stacked diamonds of white tubing perform territorial pushups for each other, each hoping to claim the realm.
The Smallist Manifesto nailed to a door.
Robotic woodpecker with two heads drums on a tree as a real Pileated woodpecker watches and then issues a vocalizations
Four black and white robots moving through their ratty gestures in different parts of a building: an attic, a furnace grate, a ceiling tile in the basement, and shower drain.
A robot made of feathers and aluminum tubing that uses some of the feathers as a propeller and some to execute tail flicks as ritual movements.
Screenshot of one screen of Deep Steward’s display from its installation at the Milan Triennial 2022 showing its stained glass window-like view of the tree outside the museum and some of its efforts to interpret that tree and the life within it.
Go Short Film Festival banner, showing the dates of the festival: 3-7 April 2024
Poster for art exhibition, Y3K: On Distant Keys, showing title of show against backdrop of colorful, organic forms.
Cover of “A Field Guide to Machine Wilderness” book showing baboon being observed.
Photo of a robotic artwork that is tubular and black, white, and red. It has whiskers and is using them to lightly whisk some blossoming, white geraniums.
Black robot with two raven beaks wipes one of them on the branch upon which it is perched.
A black robot with two raven beaks and a camera eye in its tail sits upon a branch that is losing its leaves for the autumn, silhouetted against a cloudy sky.
Three photos of a two-headed woodpecker robot called the Woodiest. Its structure is white plastic with two heads shaped like the skulls of the Pileated woodpecker and the Black woodpecker, respectively. These are painted two separate shades of metallic green. Motors and electronics are visible and the whole object is strapped to a tree. In the first image both heads are down and in the subsequent two each of the heads is drumming.
View of a part of the robot Danger Squirrel Nutkin from above, showing its core external actuators and mechanics and its camera. The sod it is set upon has died and turned brown over the months in the museum making the bright green of the robot’s fake grass very salient.
An Eastern grey squirrel observes a robot constructed from three Eastern grey squirrel tails on a boom connected to motors that actuate the tails and the boom, all mounted on a base of small square patch of fake grass.