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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 68 Reas, Casey. “Behavioral Kinetic Sculpture” MS diss., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 2001, p.20 J.KIM_A LANDSCAPE <strong>OF</strong> EVENTS 54
felt that the corrosion on the artificial materials resembled the connection between the artificial human and nature. Figure 64. Galvanic Series Table: I used aluminum (+) and stainless steel(-). I experimented with the distance between the positive and negative poles (the aluminum and the stainless steel) in the salt/baking powder water. I also applied many different power supplies, from 3V to 6V. Higher voltage/current produced more gases (oxygen and hydrogen), created more oxidation and heat – it is almost like a short circuit. For this project, I used 5V DC and 350 milliamps power supplies and it was fine for a week [based on personal communication with Eric Graham (Center for Embedded Networked Sensing)]. Figure 65. Setting for the first corrosion test (aluminum + steel wool) in March 2008 Figure 66. Setting for the corrosion test J.KIM_A LANDSCAPE <strong>OF</strong> EVENTS 55
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