Bernie Lubell makes interactive wood machines that visually construct the process of thought, evolving from his studies in both psychology and engineering. As participants play with his whimsical wood machines, they become actors in a theater of their own imagining. Lubell’s work includes a stone-age digital computer, a rainstorm of chaos and nostalgia, a phone booth–confessional communications network, simulations of the human heart and brain, and a cooperative knitting machine. He lives and works in San Francisco.