2008
Electronics, Design, Firmware, Software.  Developed in collaboration with Olafur Elaisson and his studio in Berlin and exhibited at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery,
this machine ‘listens’ to two electro-magnetic transducers on either
side of a divided string and uses these pitches to drive two
phase-locked sine wave oscillators (transposed 12
octaves lower) which regulate the AC voltage across the voice coil actuators
pushing and pulling the intersecting arms holding the pen on an X and Y axis while a disc holding the paper slowly rotates and
travels from one side of the table to the other. The ratios
generated by the divided string allow the user to extrude Lissajous
curves in a continuous spiral. In addition to the paper drawing,
all drawings are recorded to hard disk and can be played back later,
for multiple editions of a single drawing.
Video of the machine in the installation (well, 'video mode' on my handheld point-and-shoot camera):
Photos from the installation:      |