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artworks
Flow
An interactive piece inspired by the ever changing colours in nature. As people get close to the artwork the drums of variable colour rotate slowly and randomly create constantly shifting colour patterns.
Interactive Zen Garden
drawing machine - circle
Inspired by hearing a conversation between Monty Don and a Japanese Zen gardener. The Zen gardener talked with such passion about the 'materiality' of the stones he used and I wanted to make a zen garden drawing machine immediately that responds to people as they move close.
Shakespeare insult machine
Shakespeare usually insulted people in his work using either 5 or 6 word descriptions. I have placed these words in their original positions in a row but the machine changes the specific word each time whilst retaining the rhythm and structure of his original insults.
Rheoscopic fluid
Interactive vortex that is triggered by people approaching. An unseen sculptural paddle inside the fluid creates currents in combination with an immersed mini water pump.
The rheoscopic fluid creates slow motion movement.
GOD
Interactive 3d letters which separate and reconfigure as people approach.
The patterns give reference to the mechanical world in relation to God.
Interactive Zen Garden drawing machine - wave
Inspired by Japanese Zen Gardens and hearing a Zen gardener talk to Monty Don. As you approach the garden starts creating a wave in iron filings by charging them with a magnetic force from below.
Interactive Zen Garden drawing machine - figure of eight
Inspired by Japanese Zen Gardens and hearing a Zen gardener talk to Monty Don. As you approach the garden starts creating a wave in iron filings by charging them with a magnetic force from below.
I wanted to make a mechanical crossing over point for the magnets which proved quite challenging.
Interactive Map
Inspired by thinking about the brains relationship with order and chaos. The word MAP breaks up and reconfigures as people approach the artwork. The pattern breaks up and reconfigures in a different pattern every four activations.
Interactive Poetry Machine
As you approach the poetry machine it moves 8 of the 10 drums randomly to create a new poem each time.
Inspired by my father dying, he was a poet and would write poems for my public art pieces, when he died I decided to make a machine that could write poems. A tribute to him.
Mechanical horse racing Machine
Simply enjoying making a horse racing machine that reminded me of my youth.
Pea Run.
Automated marble run referencing the pea sorting history of the building. Green marbles that are lifted by sculptural forks then run down the Pea Run using different routes as they are metaphorically sorted.
Fan light.
Fan light that opens up in response to someone approaching. There are 19 films of Fiona Millward dancing and they are randomly selected and projected onto a swans feather to create a sense of delicacy.
Conversation for three.
Emotionally responsive table. In collaboration with the Mixed Reality Lab at the University of Nottingham. Each plate and menus is coded to trigger different projects next to the diners plate.
Two webcams inside the table vase detects people's faces and emotional states and chooses films to be projected accordingly.
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