12-2 Research an artist that uses physical computing in their practice.

Tim Hawkinson was born n 1960 in San Fransisco California. His art features creations of meditations on nature, machines, mortality, the body and human consciousness. He loves to use store-bought materials, handcrafted objects, and machines to shift familiar subject matter off-kilter, creating a visual conundrums of deeper meaning. His works ranges in huge sizes to microscopic pieces created from nail clippings or eggshells.
During his exhibition called "Counterclockwise" shown at the Pace gallery, Tim uses kinetic sculptures that result to playful wit and mechanically complex. he loves giving life to working parts . In his "Like World Clock", he uses elements found in medicine cabinets to indicate time and day in different world cities. "In Ranting Mop Head", the motor pushes air against a reed set onto an upturned mop to stimulate the whine of an almost human voice.

Here below: You will see "World Clock" (2012), where he uses clock motors to tie into the different items found in a medicine cabinet.

His work in "Ranting mop Head,"

The motor pushes against a reed to make a whine human voice,