查尔斯·加德肯(Charles Gadeken)是一位在湾区工作超过25年的工业艺术家。他不朽的互动公共艺术作品重新想象了“后自然”世界，包括来自火人节、失眠症活动、科切拉、绝对伏特加、帕洛阿尔托市、旧金山和里诺市的委托。他曾在国际上展出，并在《华尔街日报》上发表过文章。查尔斯擅长金属的处理，他制作了不同尺寸和功能的铜、青铜和钢制品——从照亮私密空间的桌面火花，到装饰公共广场的30英尺高的LED垂柳。查尔斯的艺术受到我们周围世界的物体、结构和过程的启发，以奇妙的方式描绘自然物体，并实现了日常生活中偶然发现的潜力。他经常结合和开发各种效果的技术——led、火焰、液压和电力——来增加他作品的视觉和物理影响，他试图在环境中灌输一种游戏感。查尔斯总是充满好奇，他采取了我们往往忽视的事物的形式，并将它们重新塑造成神奇的物体，作为我们集体意识的入口。查尔斯专注于在他创作的对象和创作方法中发挥想象力，致力于提高艺术界和公众对艺术的认识。他的许多作品都是互动的，鼓励观众成为艺术体验的参与者。他不仅创作艺术，还用自己的艺术实践来鼓励别人这样做。查尔斯激励了数百人参与艺术创作，并亲自培训志愿者，为私人收藏和各种委员会创作和安装艺术作品。2019-2020年，查尔斯是斯坦福大学电气工程系的兼职讲师。他将与EE185的学生合作创作一个动态光艺术雕塑，以庆祝斯坦福大学该系成立125周年。
Charles Gadeken is an industrial artist working in the Bay Area for over 25 years. His monumental interactive public artworks reimagine the world “post-nature” and include commissions from Burning Man, Insomniac Events, Coachella, Absolut Vodka, the Cities of Palo Alto, San Francisco, and Reno. He has exhibited internationally and been featured in the Wall Street Journal.Skilled in the manipulation of metals, Charles makes copper, bronze, and steel pieces of varying dimensions and functionalities — from a tabletop fire flower that illuminates an intimate space to a 30ft tall LED weeping willow tree that graces a public plaza. Inspired by the objects, structures and processes in the world around us, Charles’ art depicts natural objects in fantastic ways and realizes the potential for serendipity in everyday life. Often incorporating and developing technology for various effects — LEDs, flame, hydraulics, and electricity — to increase the visual and physical impact of his work, he seeks to instill a sense of play into the environment. Ever curious, Charles takes the forms of things we tend to overlook and remakes them as magical objects that exist as portals to our collective consciousness.Focused on engaging the imagination both in the objects he creates and the method of their creation, Charles is dedicated to increasing artistic community and public awareness of art. Many of his pieces are interactive, encouraging spectators to become participants in the artistic experience. He not only makes art, but also uses his artistic practice to encourage others to do so. Charles has inspired hundreds of people to participate in art-making and personally trained volunteers in the process of creating and installing art for private collections and public art for various commissions.For 2019-2020, Charles is an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University in the Electrical Engineering department. He will be creating a collaborative kinetic light art sculpture with students in EE185 to celebrate the 125th anniversary of the department at Stanford.