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Joel Hobbie combines organic forms, such as tree limbs cast in bronze, with robotic machines that use facial recognition software. As the viewer approaches, limbs move and gears turn, coming to life. This site-specific piece, "Neurons", takes the machine further away, separating us from the sculpture that clearly sees us and beckons us to come forth though fearful of what it wants - mechanisms of the future we can only try to understand.