[NetBehaviour] Sound Lathe by The Owl Project
Olga
olga.panades at gmail.com
Fri May 8 13:35:15 CEST 2009
Hi Marc,
Sorry I might have not explained myself well. In fact the project
being presented at Space as the result of the Permaculture Residency
was The Light Plants. I still had trouble understanding the
connections of the project with Permacultures. In fact it didn't seem
to be a strong link. Simon connected his work with permacultures
referring to Open Source and to the design of installations/pieces
that are systems that self-operate.
I said about the Sound Lathe because before presenting the Light
Plants Simon presented most of his previous work.
http://www.simonblackmore.net/
"Blackmore has worked on a project exploring our relationships to
passive data and the relationship of ‘data forms’ to organic shapes.
During his time at SPACE Blackmore has developed a drawing device from
an open source rapid prototyping machine to convert electro-magnetic
activity (such as electro-magnetic frequencies as used by mobile
phones) into beautiful animated drawings."
You can see a reference to permacultures in the fact that
electromagnetic pollution if you want is being turned into light
plants... But to be completely fair.. this light plants are again more
pollution themselves.. So it's more allegorical that actually truly
environmentally oriented. As we were discussing before there seems to
be a big tendency to deal with Environment as a theme rather designing
projects that make a change. But then I guess art doesn't always have
to be so goal oriented. What do you think?
--
Olga
http://www.ungravitational.net
http://virtualfirefly.wordpress.com
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