Speculation as Fine Art Tool
Bey’s Slow Car (2007), a motorized office chair and desk enclosure is designed to question our use of time spent in cars in highly congested cities. It is not intended to be mass produced but to circulate through exhibitions and publications.
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Your drawing machine must now be an artwork. The name of the artwork will be important. What things do you have control over? The look of the drawing arms, the color of the paper, the colors and strength of the marks made, the length and position of the arc, the order in which the machine makes the marks, the length of pause between marks.
Choose at least one of the following to focus on.
-make a connection to the mark it makes and WHY
-make a connection to how the machine looks and the mark it makes
-make a connection between how the machine looks and WHY it makes these marks
Being faced with a complex mix of contradictory emotions and responses opens up new perspectives on the debate about biotechnology.
An example of this is Carnivorous Domestic Entertainment Robots (2009) by designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau. They are designed to look like contemporary domestic furniture rather than appliances or machines.
Auger and Loizeau looked at research being done into microbial fuel cells that would allow robots to exist autonomously in the wild by converting organic matter like insects into energy, and they wondered how this might translate into new types of domestic robot.
The “flypaper robotic clock,” for instance, uses a loop of flypaper rotated by a small motor from which flies and other insects are scraped into a microbial fuel cell. The energy generated by the flies is used to power the motor and a small LCD clock.
The project was extremely successful in generating debate online, in the press and even on TV about the implications of using microbial fuel cells to power domestic robots.
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