New collection of Kinetic-Digitally-Controlled-Structures,
Reactive Mechanisms and Performing Robots.
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[pic. INFERNO, Louis-Philippe Demers & Bill Vorn //
EPIZOO, Marcel-li Antunez Roca // CAPTIVES-b04, Quayola]
INFERNO
“Inferno is a participative robotic performance project inspired by the concept of control and the representation of hell.The specificity of this performance resides in the situation where the machines involved in the performance are retrofitted on the body of raptured audience members cum performers
A select group of the public therefore become an active part of the performance, giving a radical instance of immersive and participative experiences. Shifting the exoskeleton’s command from the authors, to the computer, to the audience and to the performers, Inferno questions the nature of control – either machinic or human, either coerced or voluntary – where either utopian or dystopian futures radiate, both real and fictional.”
By Louis-Philippe Demers and Bill Vorn, 2015. More info here.
EPIZOO
“The Epizoo performance enables the spectator to control Marcel.lÌ’s body by means of a mechatronic system. This system comprises a body robot, which is an exoskeleton worn by the performer, a computer, a mechanical body control device, a vertical projection screen, two vertical lighting rigs and sound equipment. “
By Marcel-lí Antúnez Roca, 1994. More info here.
POWER OF ONE
“The installation for this piece consists of a laser, a mirror, and a motor. Two identical installations are set up in a vertically symmetrical fashion. The work capitalizes on the nature of the mirror between the two installations (with the right and left sides being reflections of each other). Each installation operates on the same time axis and behaves in the same manner, recalling a substanceless mirrored surface.”
By Shohei Fujimoto, 2016. More info here.
INTERFACE 1
“Interface I investigates the boundary between two interacting systems rendered into the physical. One system is a compound of motors, strings and elastic bands arranged horizontally. The two units face each other vertically (one on the top, one on the bottom).
Each motor of one level (top, bottom) is connected to its opponent with a string, meeting in the center. Both motors pull their string in the opposite direction (like in a tug of war). At the junction of the strings, a mesh of elastic bands connects the string to its neighbours. The mesh couples each element to its surrounding elements in order to achieve a local emergent behaviour.”
By Ralf Baecker, 2016. More info here.
CAPTIVES-b04
“Captives is an ongoing series of digital and physical sculptures, a contemporary interpretation of Michelangelo’s unfinished series “Prigioni” (1513-1534) and his technique of “non-finito”.The work explores the tension and equilibrium between form and matter, man-made objects of perfection and complex, chaotic forms of nature. “
By Quayola, 2013. More info here.
