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MIRA 2008 Kinetic light object PC, light sensors, broken light bulbs, speakers, old plotter, plywood frame; “Mira” (the seeker) is a kinetic object, equipped with four light sensitive diodes that are directly connected to a sound source.. Moving left and right, up and down by tiny steps, it scans its surrounding with its four “eyes”. The sound, caused by the movement, directs it - quite freely - to go one or other direction, as if playing hide and seek. ”The seeker” is however placed in a very unstable system, where the source of light is constantly changing, therefore dooming the arm to constant movement, leading it on like tragic hero - mythical Sisyphus, who, although conscious of inevitable failure, takes up the same route over and over again. The arm of the seeker executes its motion upon a matrix of encoded text, generating a stochastic sequence of sounds that are played off each time a diode encounters a white block in the pattern “Mira” belongs to the gender of Junggesellenmaschinen (Les Machines Celibataires). it is a self fertilizing machine, whose only function is its own, constant movement, its main driving force is the desire, that binds together two coexisting realms - that of light and of sound - feeding back in a closed system of mutual relations. Programming Albert Bleckmann |
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