2022/10/20/Recitation 4: Actuators and Mechanisms

The process and result of our project:

This is the circuit of our project

This is a picture of our artifact

This is how the motor work

This is the finished project.

The project I chose:

London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson) in
collaboration with Dugal McKinnon (composer), Gastarbyter,       
1798-2002. An enveloping chair links audible and inaudible
sound, physical vibration, and neon light. Black cylinders
attached to various segments of the chair control physical
vibration and tactile stimulators. The artists sought to create
an intense multi-sensual experience: ‘Ours is a culture which
encourages us only to watch and not to listen or feel, nor to
analyze how sight, sound, and touch infiltrate each other. It is
a culture whose excess of”noise” requires that we severely
filter what we are capable of perceiving.

Additional question 1:

  I think the project I did in class is a part of this project. This project is a combination of a lot of actuators. And the artist creates meaning by combining a lot of actuators, the usage of the project we did in recitation is only based on the actuator itself. I think the artist choose those actuators by testing what people feel when using them. And to find the actuators that have the effect that most corresponds to his idea.

Additional question 2: