Neil Salley is an award-winning artist, inventor, and curator of Musée Patamécanique. He pioneers the field of "Patamechanics," a discipline blending interactive engineering with Pataphysics to provoke playful, mind-bending inquiries into the nature of reality. His work features a blend of found materials, custom fabrication. animatronics, interactive video, kinetic sculpture, sound design. story telling and his own patented form of holography.

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Neil first began crafting the mechanical sculptures and performances that would become Musée Patamécanique while studying at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 2006. Hidden within Bristol's historic district, 'Patamechanics Hall' acts as a personal fabrication workshop and a dedicated exhibition environment for his surreal, immersive installation. 

 

His limited edition books, sound art pieces, video installations and interactive electronic inventions have been shown and collected nationally and internationally including; The International Festival of Arts and Technology in Xi’an China, The London Institute of Pataphysics, The DeCordova Museum, Rhode Island School of Design museum, AS220 and The Rhode Island Foundation. He has received grants from The LEF Foundation and Rhode Island State Council on The Arts. ​​