Senseless Drawing Bot is a collaboration project + installation created by So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi with metal works supported by Hitto Asai. It appeared in the exhibition “UTOPIA no OSHIRASE” in Tokyo this past September.
This work takes advantage of the chaotic motion of the double pendulum, drawing an abstract and dynamically line in real time using a spray. It is a self-generated drawing machine. Consisting in a double pendulum, a motorized skateboard modified to determine the orientation of the pendulum by the rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. Its operation is simple. In this work, has been recognized worldwide as an expression of modern “graffiti” in the act of graffiti called to eliminate the claims and the human body, by extracting the dynamism dwells in the rendering process to mimic the act. And improvisational, may sign, by presenting only the aspect of elements such as vandalism, explores the nature of this act where it is integrated, tries to connect to a new interpretation. – So Kanno
Uh, oh – don’t look now, but it looks like we may be wrapping up the week with a theme: artificial life… as art. Not long ago, we heard a story on the NPR show Radiolab that’s so uncanny it almost doesn’t seem true. It goes like this – in 1562, the 17-year-old crown prince of Spain, Don Carlos, fell down a flight of stairs and injured his head so badly it was doubtful he’d survive. His father, King Philip II, the most powerful man in the world at the time, promised that if God saved his son he’d repay him with a miracle of his own. (you can see this coming, right?) Shortly thereafter, for reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Don Carlos did indeed recover. In order to fulfill his oath King Philip commissioned a renowned clockmaker, Juanelo Turriano, to construct a miniature penitent homunculus – a monkbot. After 450 years, this thing is still in perfect working order at the Smithsonian Institution. Driven by a key-wound spring, the monk walks in a square, striking his chest with his right arm, raising and lowering a small wooden cross and rosary in his left hand, turning and nodding his head, rolling his eyes, and mouthing silent obsequies. From time to time, he brings the cross to his lips and kisses it. A gift from man to God, perhaps – but also an amazing work of skill and craftsmanship. And perhaps the world’s first robot?
Senseless Drawing Bot is a collaboration project + installation created by So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi with metal works supported by Hitto Asai. It appeared in the exhibition “UTOPIA no OSHIRASE” in Tokyo this past September.
