Alex Mayhew (LEX) — BAFTA-winning digital and fine artist, creator of the Bowie Bots David Bowie series and a pioneering augmented reality art exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario

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Metamorphosis

I don’t make changes to confuse anyone. I’m just searching.

That’s what causes me to change. I’m just searching for myself.

– David Bowie

With a level of sophistication that echoes its profound sentience, The Changemaker has inherited David Bowie’s desire to defy confinement. In an ingenious manifestation of this spirit, it develops it’s own technology enabling it to dynamically alter its outward appearance with a blink of the eye. This remarkable ability allows the Bot to embody the transient nature of David Bowie, embracing the philosophy that, much like a fleeting sunset or love, nothing in this world is a real reality to be held onto but rather enjoyed briefly and tentatively. As Bowie himself expressed, the desire not to be locked into one thing, but to flit like a butterfly from flower to flower.