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View of part of the installation on right side of room.
Pairs of stiff plant branches meet each other with bristling bare copper wires. As the wires touch, they complete the electrical circuit that triggers vibrating motors attached to each branch.
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The highly unreliable circuit connection. As the motors vibrate, the wires come apart and together in random ways, stopping and starting the motors as well. The result is an unpredictable pattern of movement. |
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The scattered electrical signals from the pairs of branches also power a small motor in the center of this plate, which drags a weighted copper triangle over a series of positively and negatively-charged copper sections. When the triangle connects a positive and negative, it temporarily turns on another element in the installation. |
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Detail of the copper plate and switching mechanism. |
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Some elements of the installation triggered by the copper plate switch above. |
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An assortment of wheels that come noisily to life now and then. |
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A free-range power sander that vibrates its way across the floor in response to changes in the noise level in the room. |
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On the left side of the room, a separate system runs off of signals from the switch (described below) hanging in the top left of the image. |
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A self-generating chaotic switch. Upended tattoo machines vibrate the bottom plate and the attached wires. As the wires connect and disconnect from sections of the top copper platter, they send unpredictable on-off signals back to the tattoo machines and to other components of the installation. |
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Some of the signals from the switch above end up at this control board, whose assortment of scavenged gears translate the scattered on-offs into multiple signals with primitively configurable durations. |
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One of the devices triggered by the control board: a renegade singing frankenhamster. |
