Me, back when...
Decades ago I was invited to provide a performance/installation at the opening gala for an extensive show on California Funk Art at the Berkeley Art Museum. In all their print collateral they used an image of a ceramic cookie jar by Robert Arneson, in the form of a three-foot Sunshine Hydrox cookie. I was one of a few artists invited to do something for them with actual Hydrox cookies.
Being, at the time, in development of my first solar powered, self-propelled mobile, I hijacked it for the Berkeley Museum project. I converted packages of the cookies into batteries by inserting alternating plates of zinc and silver, saturating the wafers with a sulfuric acid solution, and replacing the creme filling with a paste I made up from white kaolin clay and, what else... more sulphuric acid. And of course reassembling them back into the original packaging, albeit with many wires protruding.
The conversion process was done at the event, myself and two assistants in full, protective laboratory gear (for good reason). The audience had trouble believing we were really handling sulfuric acid, and of course it didn't help our credibility that we also had beakers of milk to accompany our occasional indulgence.
Here are pretty much all the pics that exist of the Cookie Mobile.
Decades ago I was invited to provide a performance/installation at the opening gala for an extensive show on California Funk Art at the Berkeley Art Museum. In all their print collateral they used an image of a ceramic cookie jar by Robert Arneson, in the form of a three-foot Sunshine Hydrox cookie. I was one of a few artists invited to do something for them with actual Hydrox cookies.
Being, at the time, in development of my first solar powered, self-propelled mobile, I hijacked it for the Berkeley Museum project. I converted packages of the cookies into batteries by inserting alternating plates of zinc and silver, saturating the wafers with a sulfuric acid solution, and replacing the creme filling with a paste I made up from white kaolin clay and, what else... more sulphuric acid. And of course reassembling them back into the original packaging, albeit with many wires protruding.
The conversion process was done at the event, myself and two assistants in full, protective laboratory gear (for good reason). The audience had trouble believing we were really handling sulfuric acid, and of course it didn't help our credibility that we also had beakers of milk to accompany our occasional indulgence.
Here are pretty much all the pics that exist of the Cookie Mobile.
