Reviews and Reflections

After Thursdays review of our projects. I managed to deeply reflect from the comments and absence of comments which I received from the individuals at my presentation. First and foremost, I believe that I greatly disappointed myself as well as others with the extent of my research and also the depth that I explained it to others. On a side note, I still believe that, although the comments which I received were rather hard, or personal, they helped me understand what and where I need to further analyze and proceed with my project if I want to come out with anything of substance.
Some of the more important questions and remarks which I got was to fully understand the relationship between time, movement and the relationship to the phenomenonical geometries which it creates in those particular instances of time. Other comments which were given to me were about re-introducing the importance of the shadows which are created throughout my project.
On the architectural sense, I'm not quite sure how or where I can apply this piece. Although time and movement are components in architecture, I haven't provided enough process, in the opinion of others to claim an answer, which I also must admit to.
So finally, the next few days will consist of exploring this phenomenon of my project through the rigors of photographing and documenting it movement through time.
What is to come out of this for the next semester, I have not concluded as such, but I feel determined to prove to myself more than others, that my project has merit and potential.

The to do list

So...After attempting to figure out my location the presentation room, I have decided that my more efficient approach should be to figure out my Arduino and circuit boards, I am still at ends about whether I should use the Arduino or simply go based on a battery pack for each individual motor. Although the Arduino does posses the luxury of making each motor run differently and with different characteristics, I think the aspect of time is pushing me towards battery packs, with different resistors.

Crunch Time

So I am a week and a bit away from needing to present and unfortunately...everything is taking up my time, My use of the laser cut machine has been more of a hassle than expected but I still hope that would be an issue with the presentation. Issues which I am trying to resolve include finding a space to place my presentation. Another issue is the fact that I'm trying to develop a frame for my project, with little success.
Hopefully tomorrow will work better with little or no interruptions and possibly with access to the laser cut machine.
Finally, here are some of my pieces which were cut on the laser machine, but more importantly, the pieces which need to be cut...this gives a clue of the quality that can be expected

Drawing of Phenomenon in Progress

So my attempts of illustrating my monster and its string geometry "phenomenon" is still in drawing form. I have managed to develop and map its movement, but I haven't been satisfied with capturing its phenomenon. So here is it in working progress

Recent developments

After coming back from Montreal and questioning the direction of my projects, I can conclude that I have undeniably come back to theatre and music on some sort of level. Although my research has been concentrated more on Etienne Jules Marey and also more contemporary works such as Manuel Baez and The Phenomenological Garden,
I have also stumbled across the geometries of music harmonics and the mathematical background to is as well. In many similar ways, there are aspects which relate with my earlier research on Oskar Schlemmer and with my more recent studio work developed in Montreal. Below is a link I found which also you to make geometries based on the loading and tension of a simple string.
http://www.falstad.com/loadedstring/

Further direction on my project

So after a week away from Montreal and seeing my flaws and personal disappointments with my project, I am a month away from review. in addition to this deadline, I need to further extrapolate the direction of my project and have a final development in regards to its purpose.
Based on our group studio, questions which need to be addressed by the end of the semester are:
-To build a structure for my monster and no...a leash just won't do
-To finally resolve the purpose and behavior of my monster
-Have an idea of its site and an idea how it will respond with and to the site
and finally to develop a direction based on the phenomenons it created and more accurately what I acquired by observations.

Montreal Review @ the Hexagram Black Box Studio

The beginning of the week at Concordia University consisted of setting up our project and introductions with the TML media group. We managed to get an understanding of everyone's specialities and each individual established a focus of who they were going to work with throughout the week.
Throughout the week, we placed trusses, which were going to be used for lighting by TML and we develop dialogue with them regarding our intention with lighting and sound.
My initial installation consisted of simply hanging from the post which were designated to each one of us, unfortunately, my obsession for perfection got the best of me and I worked on suiting my project, and adjusting it to the space we were provided. This of course consisted of designing and fabricating new pieces to fit the post, which they were to hang from.

As well, throughout the week, we were to present our project to various groups, which were scheduled to stop by and get an experience of our project.



















By Thursday afternoon, I was finally at a point where I was about to begin my installation. I managed to figure out my circuit with individuals from TML and was in the process to having a final functional piece ready for Friday. The idea was to have multiple motors running continuously for a period of time, to create geometry and space through the movement of the mechanical devices. due to the disk and the size of the disk and also there location on a fixed length of string. Based on different location on the string and different amount of disk on the string...the outcome of the geometry is different each time. The intent was to create multiple formation based on the devices with string.
The final outcome which developed was unexpected but still, it managed to convey the basic idea of my project. Therefore, I leave you with a couple images which may help individuals understand my project a little more clearly.