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Mediated Cartography     2005

Wood, steel, Mylar, bass strings, motors, computer control. (8’ tall, dimensions variable)

 

Overhead a camera tracks the viewer's movement surrounding four columns strung with acoustic bass strings. The movement around one of the stings is interpreted through a computer that controls the rate at which a motor (mounted to each of the columns) plays each string; the more movement around the column, the faster the motor plucks the string. The audio is picked up through contact microphones and output through speakers underneath a steel frame. Within the steel frame sits a stretched Mylar "canvas." On top of the canvas a thin layer of charcoal creates drawings from the vibrations of the audio produced by the bass stings; all of which is ultimately a mediated documentation of the spatial relationships of the participants.

 

 
 
 
 
   

 
 
     
       
   
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