Perspective and Context:
In the article of Century of Kinesthesia, the author discuss the “field of abstraction” in which he refers to several conceptual artwork that do not try to explain something beyong what it is. “Object with red ball “, for example, plays around with things in the universe, which is “obviously models of universe”. How artworks are valued is based on the feelings conveyed rather than over interpretation.
Alexander Calder
In the section of “Lineal and cyclical(or speed and stability)”, GuyBrett talks about the instability revealed through time and speed, which he refers to as “one of the achievements of kinetic light”. “Kinetic” and “sculpture” seems to have a charm when are are combined together.
Esther Stocker
Esther Stocker is an Italian Artist who is really good at visualizing the concept of space through basic shapd like rects and lines. I like the way he simply place several rects on the black board and gives space to imagination and feelings of real time. The different layer of the rects gives an intention of moving while being static.
Project Description:
Inspired by these concepts and artists, I got the idea of building a sculpture integrating both the idea of “abstration art” and “time and speed”. The project is intended to be self-explaining and intriguing with its movement and basic shape of rects.
The project would be of a wall scale. It would be two-layered with the bottom layer of light source and the top layer of lots of rectangles forming a puzzle plane to prevent the light. Each rect would be conneted to the bottom layer through springs and would also be connected to the soldnoids. The soldnoids would then be coded to push the rects out of its puzzle plane and then allows light to shine out around the shape of the rect being pushed out. The time and speed of pushing out the rects would be somewhat random. Which rects would be pushed out would also be unexpected by the audience. There would not be any music except for the sound of soldnoids.
Production Schedule
- 04/30 (tue) – Material preparation+draft test
- 05/02 (thu) – Physical part developing(finish the physical part by the end of the week )
- 05/07 (tue) – Light testing
- 05/09 (thu) – Adjusting(have the model finished by the end of the week)
- 05/14 (tue) – Pre-Final Critique
- 05/16 (thu) – Project 3 Presentation
- 05/23 (thu) – Project 3 Blog Post Due