14 October, 2010
The Vast Variety of Gears
How to Make Gears
30 September, 2010
Bernie Lubell's Interactive Wooden Machines
The Origins of Innocence - A Theory of Entanglement
In this film Bernie Lubell speaks about the importance of those interacting with the machine to work together. In order to make the machine knit the two people need to coordinate their speed and timing.I find this conceptually fascinating. Not only does the art work require human intervention to fulfill it potential but it requires a relationship of cooperation, understanding, and most important communication between two people. It seems to me that if the two viewers fail the art work fails.
Differnt Ways of Creating the Gears and Movement
Continuous Movement
A pendulum could be incorporated. As it swings backwards and forwards it moves the gears and could create a greater awareness of time and speed, progress and stagnation.
28 September, 2010
The machine is hand crafted from wood, built by hand, and run manually.
Luddite: Thomas Pynchon
Power/Tapping into knowledge
How do you deal with power?
How should the participating people work together to work the machine?
How has brief communication through written language change as technology has evolved?
What is the cost of communicating in a virtual world?
How does anonymous communication effect us? We read information, watch videos, and listen to audio recordings and much of the time we have no idea who is responsible for the ideas if information is not credited who is responsible? Does somebody need to be held accountable?
This has affected the way we relate to ownership, if the creator is nameless, does the user have to identify his source or is the information “common knowledge”?
In the age of Wikipedia, blogging and Digg, even major magazines do not always sight the author of the article, does this mean the information is free for anyone to use and to claim ownership of? When I want a piece of information on a historic date, a biography or a definition or synonym I type a few key words into Google and click on the first article that seems to fit my needs. The concept of opening a book seems laborious and out of date.
Advances in Abrupt Communication
If uploading, emailing and texting is so easy and something that we do so seamlessly why is it we are not communicating more? more detail, more emotions, more words, more letters?