Joshua Borsman

Joshua Borsman is a builder.

Trained in engineering and signal processing and guided by an insatiable curiosity, he works across sculpture, sound, kinetics, and painting — making pieces in which a physical system — a pendulum, a telescope, a tide — is the score.

A carbon-fibre pendulum, balanced at the edge of falling by a real-time control loop, tracks visitors across the gallery floor. A telescope, tuned to A♭ minor, sounds JWST spectra as slow chords. The International Space Station threads the meridians of latitude sixteen times a day, plucking a string at each crossing. A sculpture of knotted truck innertubes, set on a sidewalk beside a bus stop, listens for the rumble of an arriving bus and stirs only when the city pulls up.

The toolkit — control theory, computer vision, real-time sensors, modular synthesis, machine learning, projection mapping, robotics — is engineering. The subjects are gravity, weather, light, telemetry, and tide: slow systems that ordinarily move past attention, here given a microphone.

Galleries, gardens, sidewalks, telescopes, browsers. Each one a found instrument.