Engine
This room is an interactive kinetic art installation. Engine consists of four towers, one loop of string that binds together those towers, and a centerpiece. The towers are placed at the corners of the room in which the Engine is installed. Each tower is approximately as tall as an average person. On top of each tower sits a plastic water barrel where the string is looped. The barrels are not physically attached to the tower, but are rather filled with water to add weight. One tower has its barrel rotating using a motor-driven shaft that operates on commercial power banks via Arduino. This barrel acts to rotate the string across all the towers.
During the exhibition, some napkins with various writings and visual art from previous collections and published magazines will be attached to the string loop.
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The centerpiece sits in the middle of the installation space, housing two chairs, two tables, and one projector. A supervisor will sit inside the centerpiece, and will examine the napkins attached to the string. The supervisor will then freely choose the napkin they would like to project onto a wall, and will do so at random times throughout the exhibition.
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The centerpiece sits in the middle of the installation space, housing two chairs, two tables, and one projector. A supervisor will sit inside the centerpiece, and will examine the napkins attached to the string. The supervisor will then freely choose the napkin they would like to project onto a wall, and will do so at random times throughout the exhibition.
The string loop’s rotation will happen at all times during the exhibition, where incoming viewers will be able to create their own writings and visual art on a napkin and attach it to the string loop. Incoming viewers will also be able to attach their responses to existing napkins.
Both the towers and the centerpiece are constructed using wooden slabs of similar sizes. All supplies excluding the motor-driven shaft will be already existing, provided and be reusable by Studio94.
move us around!
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The engine is a collection of ideas from viewers, participants, and editors. Its movement is a physical symbol of fractal because it combines the ideas into one “beating heart”.
Materials - Napkins, wooden blocks, shaft, large plastic water barrels, wooden dress clips, 9V Power supply, MOSFET transistor, Potentiometer, rubber bands, projector.
designed by Sun Kim