Valentino Braitenberg personifies sensing vehicles in his article, he describes how each sensor gives a different characteristic to the vehicle and how it affects the vehicle in terms of movement.
I found this to be very interesting, mainly because I felt almost like he was alluding to humans a lot. He lists many different sensors, such as light, sound, heat, etc.
He then starts to describe how multple sensors bring on completely new characteristics and possibilities.
In the article by Metzger, he talks about "auto-destructive art" which is an artpiece that has a component that ultimitely leads to its destruction sometime within the next twenty years.
This is actually a really cool idea, I have seen people do extremely elaborate artwork in the snow and sand, just to be wiped away within hours. It would be extremely interesting to see a
piece that was of a more statue-esque design that was self-destructive.
"Auto-destructive paintings, sculptures and constructions have a life time varying from a few moments to twent years. When the disintegrative process is complete the work is to be removed from
the site and scrapped." I find this to be especially interesting because for an artist to create an auto-destructive art piece, he or she would know as they create it that it will eventually be
destroyed and thrown away.
Hardware Project and documentation:
"Auto-destructive art is art which contains within itself an agent which automatically leads to its destruction"
When making my project I drew inspiration from "The Useless Machine" which in a way is auto-destructive, as it shuts
itself off whenever it is turned on.
I wanted to make my project after the useless machine by making its only purpose to defeat its own purpose.
I started with an arduino setup that I had made and placed it into a housing made out of an almond can.
Originally I had planned to make a device that would
hold an object and when a person tried to remove said object the device would stop them until they let go of the object.
I was unable to do so because the motor that I had chose was not strong enough. I was annoyed and was panicking a bit and
I realized that my in-progress device represented that very well with the noises and movements that it made.
I changed out a few parts to empahasize the annoyingness of the device and it was complete.
The device now spins constantly while powered and will only stop when a user is
holding down the button on the center of the can, as soon as the person removes pressure from the button the motor will begin to spin again, I felt this
was perfect as it forced the participant to "babysit" the device, because of this parallel I ended up naming the device BabyII
I started with an arduino setup that I had made and placed it into a housing made out of an almond can.
Originally I had planned to make a device that would
hold an object and when a person tried to remove said object the device would stop them until they let go of the object.
I was unable to do so because the motor that I had chose was not strong enough. I was annoyed and was panicking a bit and
I realized that my in-progress device represented that very well with the noises and movements that it made.
I changed out a few parts to empahasize the annoyingness of the device and it was complete.
The device now spins constantly while powered and will only stop when a user is
holding down the button on the center of the can, as soon as the person removes pressure from the button the motor will begin to spin again, I felt this
was perfect as it forced the participant to "babysit" the device, because of this parallel I ended up naming the device BabyII