Open Studio Friday 25th 2014

In short:
Instead of tracking for food related hashtag words in tweets I have been using a track list of words like ‘framework, construct, fabricate, architecture, construction, network, etc.  For me, at this moment, the food-related-hashtag-words didn’t have any relationship with the visual part of the installation. The Installation has become more like a tower. I have been researching images and illustrations of the Marconi tower, Google server farms and the tower of Babel. Back home I will work out the construction.

The video is being speed up 5x to show the rise and fall. In the original installation the tower rises much slower.

Tests & Experiments

 

 

Tower Construction

I am researching tower constructions and I am experimenting with building small models of towers. While researching I came across at the Marconi Towers

Marconi founded the London-based Marconi Telegraph Company in 1899. Though his original transmission traveled a mere mile and a half, on December 12, 1901, Marconi sent and received the first wireless message across the Atlantic Ocean, from Cornwall, England, to a military base in Newfoundland. His experiment was significant, as it disproved the dominant belief of the Earth’s curvature affecting transmission.

This is one of the models a made:

Testing setup installation

I changed the setup to do some tests with pulleys (still on a small scale to have easier acces). I am also using a different thread, nylon coated stainless steel wire 0.45 mm, to see if it works. I use testweights so that there is tension on the thread because the thread is springy.

In the video clip below I experiment with the thread and I experiment with lifting paper. It all seems to work just fine, although I am not so sure to use the paper in this way. The lifting and lowering is now done by me (pressing the buttons in max) and is a bit static, repetitve. Controlled by the Max patcher the lifting will be less monotonous. I am still working out what the shape, form and material should be of the physical part of the installation.

Another thing I am also questioning is if there should be a physical-visual representation at all. I am considering it to be just  an audio installation of the spoken #hashtag words. The spoken words come across as quite powerful. I have to study the possibility of voice change over time in relationship to the growing amounts of spoken #hashtag words.

Previous setup:

Music Hut across my balcony

Filmed, at 11 o’clock at night, one of the Music Huts across my balcony. I sleep at Loyd Hall and across my room there are Music Huts. They are used by musicians to practice their piece. Every night I hear these wonderful and sometimes not so wonderful sounds…

Map of the Banff Centre

My studio is at Glyde Hall.

Screen recording of the Max Patcher

Not the best screen recording, it is a bit blurred…
And some words are pronounced in a strange way, I scream (icecream) and beads (beans)  🙂

Cables that carry the internet under the sea

source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/files/2014/07/Map-GIF.gif.gif

Preparing

I am preparing a presentation for tomorrow. I have to give a small talk about my work. All the other participants that are part of the Summer Bair* program will give a presentation as well. Further I watched on a small live feed window on my MacBook the Germans win 🙂

*Banff Artist In Residence

 

Full Moon

View from my balcony