Arthur Ganson uses simple, plain materials to build witty mechanical art. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of New Hampshire (1978), Ganson has been creating mechanical sculpture for over thirty years. Ganson's creations are kinetic: that is, they move, either by a motor or with the help of a viewer, who pushes a bar or turns a crank to bring the piece to life.

Ganson has been an artist-in-residence at MIT (where the Lemelson-MIT Award Program named him an Inventor of the Week, and where his show "Gestural Engineering" is ongoing) and has shown his work at art and science museums around the world in over 20 solo exhibitions and countless shared exhibitions.