Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh
Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh
Intersections - Nguyen Dang Binh
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Fernando Orellana<br />
8520 S.W. 27th pl. v.2<br />
10 feet x 15 feet x 10 feet<br />
Robotics and art<br />
ARTIST STATEMENT<br />
Free will requires that we make continuous decisions on which directions<br />
our lives should take. As newborns, we learn how our bodies<br />
work, through countless unconscious decisions. As we age, this process<br />
continues, becoming more conscious and abstract. We spend<br />
our lives with this endless string of problems to solve, contemplating<br />
what action to take on each, evaluating the consequences from the<br />
decisions, and moving on to the next. The reconfigured Gemmy<br />
Corporation Dancing Hamster toys found in 8520 S.W. 27th pl.<br />
symbolize this human decision-making and its inevitably limited<br />
consequences in our highly constrained existence.<br />
CONTACT<br />
Fernando Orellana<br />
Union College<br />
1420 Stanford Street<br />
Schenectady, New York 12308 USA<br />
orellana@gmail.com<br />
www.fernandoorellana.com<br />
TECHNICAl STATEMENT<br />
Each robot found in 8520 S.W. 27th pl. has the ability to walk forward<br />
or backward on a track in its house. The robots have been programmed<br />
with a unique set of eight numbers. These numbers are<br />
used to determine what type of kinetic behavior the robots demonstrate.<br />
Some robots might appear to be confident in their decisions<br />
as they walk valiantly back and forth in the house, while others might<br />
exhibit what seems to be hesitation, staying in one place for a long<br />
period of time or fidgeting between decisions. In the end, the decision<br />
is random, but it serves as a metaphor for the overall redundancy<br />
of our decisions. The random seed used to generate the decision is<br />
extracted from a small infrared sensor installed at one end of each<br />
house. like our decision process, the sensor allows for external<br />
forces to influence the outcome of each choice the robot makes. As<br />
people view the piece, they unknowingly influence how the robots<br />
behave and what they decide from one moment to the next. The<br />
robots pause at every new assessment, pulsing a small light in their<br />
heads, which makes them appear to be contemplating future action.<br />
Artworks Art Gallery Electronic Art and Animation Catalog
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