Since 10 years the dutch artists Theo Jansen creates kinetic sculptures, a combination of engineering and art. The large, complex works remembers to skeletons of animals and they are able to walk using the wind on the cost of the Netherlands. Theo Jansen call his »beach creatures« Strandbeests.
Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives.
www.strandbeest.com
lecture: www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/162
Book: Theo Jansen: The Great Pretender, English, Pubisher: 010 Uitgeverij (August 2007), ISBN-10: 9064506302, ISBN-13: 978-9064506307