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1. Cloud Gate, fabrication, ca. December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, ca. December 17, 2002 Industrial facilities; Machinery; Steel; Machine shops View from above of workers shaping a curved steel plate in the fabrication shop at Performance Structures Inc. (PSI). After plasma cutting the steel plates, a custom made roller, similar to an English...
2. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Industrial facilities; Machine shops; Steel Close up of a steel plate beneath a precision measuring device called a Faro arm. In order for the plates to fit together, the dimensions and curvature of each plate had to be accurate to within one-thousandth...
3. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Steel; Machinery; Industrial facilities; Machine shops Close-up of a Faro arm measuring the dimensions of the steel plate below.
4. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Steel; Machine shops; Industrial facilities; Bolts & nuts; Close-up of a Faro arm measuring the dimensions of the steel plate below.
5. Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Cloud Gate, fabrication, December 17, 2002 Machinery; Steel; Industrial facilities; Machine shops A steel plate beneath a precision measuring device called a Faro arm. A Faro arm is an automated scanning device that checks measurements against computer models and calculates whether they are within...
6. Cloud Gate, fabrication, milling, April 21, 2003 Cloud Gate, fabrication, milling, April 21, 2003 Steel; Milling machines; Machine shops; Structural frames; Industrial facilities; A milling machine is used to remove excess material from a steel plate. In order for the steel plates forming the sculpture to fit together, the dimensions and curvature of each plate had to be exact to...
7. Cloud Gate, fabrication, rolling, April 22, 2003 Cloud Gate, fabrication, rolling, April 22, 2003 Steel; Machinery; Machine shops; Industrial facilities; A worker positioning a flat steel plate into a roller. A custom made roller, similar to an English roller, was built by PSI to roll the steel plates into their curved shapes. The plates are shaped by moving...
8. Crown Fountain, dentist chair, video production, July 30, 2003 Crown Fountain, dentist chair, video production, July 30, 2003 Motion picture studios; Stuffed animals (Toys); The dentist’s chair that Chicagoans sat in to be filmed while making Crown Fountain’s videos.

The camera that was used to film the subjects was a high definition camcorder, the same kind...
9. Crown Fountain, video still with notes, July 30, 2003 Crown Fountain, video still with notes, July 30, 2003 Film stills; Pens; Marks (Symbols); A printed out image of a face that will be included in Crown Fountain’s video bank, showing some of the considerations the film makers had to take into account.

The dimensions of Crown Fountain,...
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