The man behind the Mad Inventor's Goggles: Russell Zeid
In 1999 I received my first large Art commission to design and build a series of Artistic features for the Chinook Centre in Calgary, Alberta.
The Chinook Centre commission included a set of scaled (10ft long) whimsical flying machines that move on 450ft of industrial monorail affixed to the ceiling of the food concourse, also a solar powered climbing window vine, a large Nitrogen filled Stainless Steel Time capsule, sunk into the floor of the Mall’s Rotunda and a crowning four Tonne, Albertosaurus constructed from old rusty farm and oil industry scrap, that stands 20ft tall in the entrance way to the centre.
My previous Shopping Mall art has included 20 Copper and Brass, Squirrels, Birds and Turtles in the Champlain Mall in Brassard, Québec.
In 2002 I built and installed a 10 meter tall Foucault pendulum in the “Four season Place” in Bangkok, Thailand.
With the ‘Agent of Change’ upgrades to the Ontario Science Centre, I was asked to submit a design for an interactive exhibit for the ‘Hot Zone’ area. The ‘Question of the day Machine’ has been operating for the last four years.
In 2007 I designed and built and had built a 3 meter by 4 meter Interactive model Asteroid that adorns the entrance wall of the ‘Cardiac Intervention Unit’, of the Hospital for Sick Children, in Toronto.
I am currently a science educator in an Ontario Institution and currently a council member of the ‘Royal Canadian institute for the Advancement of Science’.
I continue to build whimsical and unusual sculptures and devices that pop into my head and out of my hands.
My best co-creation to date is my son Samuel.
