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4.3. Aesthetic Process: Forms and Materials
Kinetic Information System In terms of visualizing the data in my
project, there are two main ways of data visualization – the kinetic
movements of the present which occur as a real time movement by means
of a plotter system, and the tracing of past movements which corrode
sheets of aluminum. In his MS thesis, Behavioral Kinetic Sculpture, Casey
Reas explains the word Kinematics “as the study of motion unattached to
forces or objects” and Kinetics “as motions resulting from forces directly
connected with physical systems.” 68
In my work, the motions represent the presence and the trace visualizes
the history of the presence. I can call the system as being a real-time
kinetic information system. As a final form, the project is like a space,
environment and nature. The movement is transformed from ocean wind
data (virtual, but from real data) to the real world. When the wind breeze
is light, the device moves slowly, and the water pump spouts out a small
amount of water, while the behavior is fast and strong when the wind
breezes strongly.
Corrosion Despite the degree of control that the system will have, I was
willing to let the system produce some unpredictable effects, so that the
results of visualizing the natural data in this way will be unexpected, like
nature itself. What I hope to do is represent natural phenomena using
nature itself – not by using unnatural graphical patterns or paint. I am
looking for something from nature itself, particularly related wind, in this
project. During wind data research, I was looking for phenomena with
wind which is my first series of data. After research, I found one interest
method which is galvanic corrosion, one common form of corrosion in
marine environments.
Figure 63. Andy Warhol,
Copper Oxidation
Galvanic corrosion is an electrochemical process, in which one metal
corrodes preferentially with another, when the two (or more) dissimilar
metals come in contact with an electrolyte solution such as slat water. I
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Reas, Casey. “Behavioral Kinetic Sculpture” MS diss., Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 2001, p.20
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