In our May 2014 issue, Sridhar Kota, a professor of engineering at the University of Michigan and founder and president of the company FlexSys, published an article about his long - running campaign to take complex,
multipart machines and redesign them as flexible, one - piece devices (subscription required).
In conjunction with the exhibition One Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North, Brooklyn - based artist Steffani Jemison (American, b. 1981) presents her new
multipart commission Promise
Machine.