steady state – quick update
It’s about time I write something about what I’m working on for project development studio. It shall be known as “steady state”, at least for the time being. It’s an exploration into emergence of organic motion, in the form of a kinetic sculpture.
The idea started from a brainstorming session for a another project, and, as it often happens, mutated into something quite different from the original. I got obsessed with the idea of having autonomous modular units that affect each other, and as also with tropism, and more specifically heliotropism. What I have in mind is something you might call a tree or plant (but I rather you wouldn’t), a series of units that are stacked on top of one another and can rotate around their axis (sketches to come soon).
After running to a lot of problems while working on the design, I decided to take Danny’s advice and prototype the thing in two dimensions first, just to see the motion and whether it was really what I imagined. Luis suggested that I start with a horizontal prototype, to take away some of the forces out of the equation, and so I did. At the same time, I spent a day working on a more precise design which I then proceeded to get laser cut. The results were pretty disappointing – the teeth didn’t come out right, even when I tried using acrylic instead of masonite. This is probably due to the thickness of the material (1/4″). I’m going to try again with a thinner piece of plexi and see how that goes.
projdev dream, vision, goal, plan
Dream – To create an experience (or a series of experiences) around the theme of our ever changing reality – a reality made out of sub-atomic particles, one that is continuously flowing and constantly morphing. These experiences should not be educational or informative per-se, but the aim is to involve the viewer (for lack of a better term) to such a degree that genuine experiential understanding will emerge.
Vision – I imagine a series of immersive audio-visual experiences completely engulfing several rooms – the walls, ceiling, objects in the room all covered with screens/projections. The input will come from the environment: the people and their movement through the space will be captured. The visuals and audio will be algorithmically disintegrated, decomposed, and recomposed in various ways.