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[Shockbot] “Corejulio”, 5VOLTCORE - Emanuel Andel, Christian Gützer (Germany)
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[Shockbot] “Corejulio” (2004)
5VOLTCORE has built a programme controlled robot (Shockbot Corejulio, Transmediale Award 2005) that creates asthetic information out of dysfunction in the form of audio and visual output.
Shockbot Corejulio is built out of three main parts:
1st the programme that controls the shockbot, 2nd the circuit board, that operates, via relays, the (3rd) motors that then move the shockbot. Essential for the piece is the circular process between the computer and the shockbot. The computer sends impulses to the robot that subsequently moves on it's tracks targeting random points within the computer hardware.
At the point of contact a short-circuit occurs creating a fault current. This error is recognized as a command and in an attempt to interpret this disinformation, the computer creates, together with the shockbot, random pictures on the display.
As the damage to the computer increases, there is a proportional rise of dysfunction to the controll signal. This overload of errors ends in a total collapse of the system.
A video that shows the work is online available.
http://5voltcore.com/typolight/typolight257/index.php?id=1&articles=1}}
Saving Myself
"saving myself" thematises the chronotopic universum: time as humanity's final frontier, as a delimited unit of measurement of the existential: an artifically controlled climate is created in a sealed opaque glass cube containing a bonsai tree. By altering the climatic conditions according to the seasons, the bonsai can be made to produce a diverse series of annual rings. The size of the rings reflects the climate – the plant in any particular year therefore becomes "manipulable": a potential data store.
Every quarter year a picture of the tree is made automatically, evaluated, and this information is then used to produce an illumination and watering plan for the coming quarter. The tree saves a picture of itself, fragmented over time, in which it inscribes year by year, pixel by pixel. From outside the tree is only visible when illuminated, the only way of reading the saved image is by felling the tree.
A PDF [4,7 MB] about this work
http://5voltcore.com/typolight/typolight257/index.php?id=1&articles=69
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