Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Post 5 Final Design

So in my final design, I have decided to focus on the translation of analog life to digital data. Something that happens millions of times a day in current American society, but I feel under examined. To my mind there seems to be a fundamental shift in analog to digital technology. Where analog is based upon a constant physical contact to transfer and alter energy. Digital transfer relies on breaking energy into pieces to transfer as its fundamental mood of operation.

I hope to exemplify this fundamental change by having the beginning of the sculpture be human powered and then end visualize the output as digital packets.





Also new idea on powering the sculpture

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  1. UnknownFebruary 9, 2011 at 6:32 AM

    I like it! Simple and oh-so metaphorical! I respond to the way one movement begets the other in a never-ending cycle of codependency. Tres' chic!

    i jest, but I actually do think that the world is truly having to, again, grapple with the basic idea of "Spaceship Earth." We're all in this flying air bubble in space together.

    Fuller: Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth is a short book by R. Buckminster Fuller, first published in 1968, following an address with a similar title given to the 50th annual convention of the American Planners Association in the Shoreham Hotel, Washington D.C., on 16 October 1967[1]. The original edition (ISBN 0-525-47433-1) is now out of print, although partial/complete copies of the text may be found on the internet, both hard-bound and paperback. However, a new paperback edition (July 15, 2008) is now available (ISBN 3-037-78126-2), (ISBN 978-3037781265).

    The book relates Earth to a spaceship flying through space. The spaceship has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Manual_for_Spaceship_Earth

    The web site for his foundation is great: http://www.bfi.org/

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