Exposition at Noorderzon Festival 2012

About a month ago the sculpture was shown at the Noorderzon AValanche preview and at the Night of Art & Sciences in Groningen.

The Noorderzon Festival came back to me if I would like to show the work again at the end of August during the festival.
So the work stays a work  in progress and for their website and other promotion material I made some new pictures of the sculpture with a visual form of where I would like it go.

As described in earlier posts the triangle had to go and a pentagon had to go in. With a ruler and a pair of compasses  I drew a pentagon and cut the fabric in it's shape. After that I could connect all servo's and swing the installation into action.








I decided to use some RGB ledbars to set the background in a preferred background color. With these ambient colors in the background of the sculpture the projections really stood out more and seemed more fresh. The moment I saw all the pictures that were taken of the sculpture I knew I had to implement this within my concept.
Right now I'm in the middle of writing my research- and project-reports. The space is going to be implemented in my concept as well as sound. The exact way the audience will interact with it isn't clear to me yet. I think that when I'm finalizing my research more things will get clear and some amazing updates will be done to make the sculpture even better.

Link: Noorderzon website ' Generative Sculpture'

Exposition at Night of the Arts & Science

I've had a great time at the Night of the Arts & Science. In the morning I had the time to place my work in the exposition space and an hour before the start of the event I configured the whole installation. There was one little problem during the event, somebody pulled the power-plug of my installation for a coffee machine within the first hour we were open.

After starting de whole installation again I found out that the recalling of the saved settings didn't work properly. The installation was running, but the projections and the moving projection surface weren't aligned properly anymore. I had to leave it running this way because configuring during the event would take to much time and would look awkward.

I found out that the work didn't communicate the concept and the ideas behind it that well. The audience couldn't see the difference between the several stages like the mutations and the graphic representation of that new breed.
I think that the work needs sound and or sounds to provide them with an auditive feedback as well for the several stages.

Another quite logic error was that the sonic range sensors were seen as doorbells or some other kind of button they had to push. I'm considering to remove them and replace it with something else that could detect the presence of people around the installation or another form of interaction.

It was a good experience to have the sculpture exposed two times by now. The first time was a week earlier for a preview of the AValanche project for the Noorderzon Performing Arts Festival.
Right now I've got some time left to rethink certain aspects of the installation and make some adjustments. At the end of August the work is shown at the Noorderzon Festival in Groningen.