The update for the week

Abstrac + Studio Review:
The initial focus of my project consisted of looking at the relationship between that of man, machines and theatre performances between both. The progressive work of individuals such as Oskar Schlemmer from the Bauhaus more specifically regarding his “agent-space-event” theory drew quick attention to me and instigated further desire to explore methods of intertwining machines and humans in a fashion which causes various spatial configurations, within an environment and within the participants and reciprocated back to participants.

After a group review and critique, the extent of my project is falling towards more exploration of what my machine can develop with movement and materials. My initial approach aims at understanding the geometrical and functional spaces which can be created by the machines in relationship with human interactivity. The preliminary step to my project has been to recover machines and to deconstruct them to there primary and most fundamental component, the motor. The intent has been to develop a mechanism or circuitry which allows the motor to respond to the participant, by photovoltaic sensors and hence, reciprocate a response back to the participant. After further studies and investigation the idea is to project a more theatrical approach to my devices. At this moment, I am attempting to resolve my issue of find a suitable material which can hang and move freely due to the motors circular action and create geometries and spaces due to these circular movements, which will be determined by various factors such as weight, speed and length of string and alternative material. Questions regarding if the machines can interact with other machines, rather than humans come to the forefront and the possibility of placing the humans completely out of the equation is another idea I’d like to explore. Secondly the depiction and study of these movements produces other influential precedence’s which could possibly prove beneficial to the project. The work of Etienne Jules Marey and future chronophotography develops another aspect which may relate with my initial project of man and machine and the capture of movement.