Hello World!
Intermedia
CCA
350 Sauchiehall Street
Glasgow
Friday 16th January - Friday 13th February
Launch Party:
Friday 16 January, 6-9 PM
Closing Party / Jam session:
Friday 13 February, 6-10 PM
"hello world" marked the official launch of project2891 for public consumption.
The exhibition introduced the first batch of nodes, and the methods used to control them. The exhibition consisted of electromechanical devices, screen-based animations, and a sound work. All of which existed as individual artworks and as elements of the larger installation.
Nodes 105 & 106 made up the electromechanical elements of the installation, and provided the origin of all the acvitity in the other nodes in the gallery. This consisted of 6 vertical swingarms (node 105), each of which were paired to 6 horizontal swingarms (node 106). Each swingarm, both horizontal and vertical, had a small electric fan at one end, and sensor at the other. As the fans turned on and off, it would upset the balance of the swingarms causing them to to swing back and forth. They interacted with each other as they moved about & triggered each others sensors. This interaction was then translated into data which was sent to project2891's switchboard using protocol2891.
Node 102 was a patch written in pure data which generated sounds based in part on the data generated through the interaction between nodes 105 and 106. As the patch generated the audio, it fed yet more data back to the swtichboard affecting the motion in nodes 105 and 106.
Node 101 acts as a graphical "monitor" of all the nodes activity in project2891. In this case, it was reflecting the rate of interaction between node 105 and 106 and the feedback provided by node 102.
Similarly, node 103 is a graphical interpretation of the data controlling nodes 105 and 106.
The video and images to to the right show what all this looked and sounded like as it was operating.
More detailed information regarding how each of the nodes operates can be found in the nodes section.
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Something you should know:
This project is part of the research supporting Ben Dembroski's PhD candidacy at the Glasgow School of Art. As such, any information generated during the course of correspondence or collaboration regarding this work may wind up in my PhD thesis for all the world to read. Please read the fine print and research methodology before collaborating with this project for full details what information may be disclosed, and the manner it will be presented.