andreas schlegel, resonate 2014
DESCRIPTION
A presentation that walks the viewer through 2 art projects. In each projects data is collected from an environment, both environments are very different from each other. Mongolia with its wide steppes and rural areas and the very dense and highly developed city-state Singapore. Both projects make use of diy instruments and techniques to collect data which is then translated into artifacts using custom built software and hardware. the final outcomes are then exhibited and presented in public and semi public spaces. Both projects promote process over outcome, environmental consciousness, investigations driven by personal interest and motivation, alternative approaches to institutionalised methods of sensing an environment, enabling discourse and inspiration across disciplines, practice of citizen science, empowerment through coding. Presented in April 2014 at the resonate.io festival in Belgrade, Serbia.TRANSCRIPT
Explorations. The Physical. The Digital.
Andreas Schlegel LASALLE College of the Arts www.sojamo.de www.syntfarm.org
Resonate 2014 Belgrade, Serbia
Syntboutique, by syntfarm, 2008. Urban Explorations, 2012.
Syntfarm Mongolia, 2008 Syntboutique
Our mission was to find objects that are of great importance for people living independently from information technologies, electrical energy and consumerism.
Syntfarm Mongolia, 2008 Syntboutique
Our mission was to find objects that are of great importance for people living independently from information technologies, electrical energy and consumerism.
Physical Input Digital Process Physical Output
to capture physical objects using a camera to transform found objects through custom-built software to fabricate synthetic artifacts which are presented as souvenirs
Custom five angles capturing technique
Computed point cloud of horse head
Mesh rendering of horse head
3D printed objects additive printing process using vero white resin
The Urban Explorations Project
The Urban Explorations project stems from an interest in documenting various phenomena of the urban landscape. The ideas for the Urban Explorations Project are driven by the concept of urban sensing where individuals analyze the environment they live in through various strategies and instruments which can range from personal observations, taking samples of the environment, measuring and comparing different environmental characteristics. Rather than looking at the city through data captured by highly technological sensor systems, we wanted to explore the city through our custom-built tools. Our motivation was driven by playfulness, naivety, and curiosity.
Next I will walk you through the following steps of the project
· Brainstorming and idea development · Building tools to sample and capture data using open source
technologies and low cost materials · Field trips · Evaluation and translation of samples and data + production · Exhibition · Community engagement · Reflection · Team: 8 explorers, local-to-foreigner-ratio 3:1 · Duration: 4 months including ideation, development, field trips,
exhibition design, roving exhibition
One of the basic situationist practices is the derive, a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiences. Derives involve playful-constructive behavior and awareness of psychogeographical effects, and are thus quite different from the classic notions of journey or stroll. !Theory of the Derive (Debord). 1958. Theory of the Derive (Debord). ![ONLINE] Available at: http://www.bopsecrets.org/SI/2.derive.htm. [Accessed 22 January 2014].!!
Building tools to sample and capture data using open source technologies and low cost materials With a low-tech driven approach in collecting data rather than making use of digitally available big data sets to make sense of the urban environment, we were required to conceptualize and design our own methods and strategies to collect and categorize data.
Field trips A number of field trips across Singapore were conducted to collect small but diverse data sets. These include samples taken from areas of reclaimed land, 3 types of temperature samples including body-, environment-, and perceived-temperature, a set of smell samples inspired by the Hennig’s Odour system, or a table of location based color-codes captured and processed by a mobile phone.
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Some images from the field trips
Evaluation and translation of samples and data All collected samples and data are translated into static or dynamic artefacts using traditional methods including prints or paintings and new techniques such as computational design or digital fabrication.
Community engagement
Why is this project and the methods used within this project relevant?
· Process vs. Outcome · Environmental consciousness · Investigations driven by personal interests and motivation · Alternative approaches to institutionalized methods of sensing an
environment · Enable discourse and inspiration across disciplines · Practice of citizen science · Empowerment
Andreas Schlegel [email protected] @sojamo www.sojamo.de www.syntfarm.org Interactive.lasalle.edu.sg/medialab