May 31, 2010 1
Insight into the development process for my latest DOING assignment:
This piece is part of a larger dialogue/work ‘AUGMENTED INADEQUACIES’ which you can read about here:
http://www.intersectionspublicart.org.uk/project2.php?id=00028
and here:
http://www.intersectionspublicart.org.uk/project3.php?id=00033
more soon!
May 30, 2010 0
The final submission for the Digital Media DOING module requires a response to the theme of “Extensions of Man” – invoking a McLuhanesque conception of communications media & technology as extensions ov our human capability.
This relates nicely to a new project I have been developing – Augmented Inadequcies – in collaboration with the artist Alan Smith and Allenheads Contemporary Arts:
Augmented Inadequacies
by John OShea
Traditional technological developments promise ever greater speed, power and independence and foster a notion of autonomous identity. Invention, a beloved offspring of necessity, solves problems and bridges gaps, effortlessly articulating both will and whim, diluting distance and domesticating desire. Through an open-ended dialogue and iterative process, John O’Shea will work in collaboration with Alan Smith, to propose and prototype new technological works – “strange inventions” – which will run counter to prevailing technological trends and attempt to make our human vulnerability, fallibility and mutual inter-dependence more visible and tangible.
Feb 17, 2010 0
We are required, for our DOING assignment, to draw an interesting shape using Processing and export it as a PDF. file so that we can cut it out using the lazer-cutter…
My thoughts have returned to the unusual Prenzlauer Berg gravestone and I have decided to make a model. The black outline will be cut from leftover acrylic plastic in the workshop and the design element (in red above) will be engraved (is engraved the right word – sounds quite grand - anyway, it will be cut also but not all of the way through.)
Having already made an approximation of the spirograph design I have worked with Processing’s bezier() function to make an outline shape similar to that of the original stone. It took some time to understand how to programme the curves but once the bezier principle is understood it is actually very simple. Basically, the curve is constructed through combining both sets of co-ordinates for the construction lines (in red below).
PDF. here also. (any questions please add comment.)
(this instance of DIY gravestone manufacturing may or may not have been inspired by this Home Office video designed to help young people with everyday problems…)
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